Annotated speech corpora are databases consisting of signal data along with time-aligned symbolic ‘transcriptions’. Such databases are typically multidimensional, heterogeneou...
Database software can be tailored for specific application domains and their required functionality, for specific hardware and its characteristics, or for other purposes. This bri...
While Linked Open Data (LOD) has gained much attention in the recent years, requirements and the challenges concerning its usage from a database perspective are lacking. We argue t...
Large web or e-commerce sites are frequently hosted on clusters. Successful open-source tools exist for clustering the front tiers of such sites (web servers and application serve...
During the last decade, all commercial database systems have included features for parallel processing into their products. This development has been driven by the fact that datab...