We present recommendations on Performance Management for databases supporting Binary Large Objects (BLOB) that, under a wide range of conditions, save both storage space and datab...
Fragmentation leads to unpredictable and degraded application performance. While these problems have been studied in detail for desktop filesystem workloads, this study examines n...
Abstract. New emerging applications including genomic, multimedia, and geospatial technologies have necessitated the handling of complex application objects that are highly structu...
Tao Chen, Arif Khan, Markus Schneider, Ganesh Visw...
Most applications that access large data objects do so through file systems, but file systems provide an incomplete solution, as they maintain insufficient metadata and do not pro...