Until recently, most data integration techniques involved central components, e.g., global schemas, to enable transparent access to heterogeneous databases. Today, however, with t...
While database management systems offer a comprehensive solution to data storage, they require deep knowledge of the schema, as well as the data manipulation language, in order to...
Computer system sizing involves estimating the amount of hardware resources needed to support a new workload not yet deployed in a production environment. In order to determine th...
Ted J. Wasserman, Patrick Martin, David B. Skillic...
Most operations of the relational algebra or SQL - like projection with duplicate elimination, join, ordering, group by and aggregations - are efficiently processed using a sorted...
1 The unstructured Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems usually use a “blind search” method to find the requested data object by propagating a query to a number of peers randomly. In or...