Availability and performance can be improved using data replication as the basic technique, thus benefitting the services provided by a distributed system. However, replication im...
Abstract. Database outsourcing is becoming increasingly popular introducing a new paradigm, called database-as-a-service, where a client’s database is stored at an external servi...
Ernesto Damiani, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati,...
The Linux 2.6 kernel supports asynchronous I/O as a result of propositions from the database industry. This is a positive evolution but is it a panacea? In the context of the Badg...
We examine the organizational impact on phylogenetic databases of the increasing sophistication in the need and use of phylogenetic data. A primary issue is the use of the unnorma...
The need to access spatial data at multiple levels of detail is a fundamental requirement of many applications of geographical information, yet conventional spatial database access...