A range of database services are being offered on clusters of workstations today to meet the demanding needs of applications with voluminous datasets, high computational and I/O r...
Musical scores are traditionally retrieved by title, composer or subject classification. Just as multimedia computer systems increase the range of opportunities available for pres...
Rodger J. McNab, Lloyd A. Smith, Ian H. Witten, Cl...
This paper introduces Clustera, an integrated computation and data management system. In contrast to traditional clustermanagement systems that target specific types of workloads,...
David J. DeWitt, Erik Paulson, Eric Robinson, Jeff...
Recent research has shown that one can use Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs) to build scalable, robust and efficient applications. One question that is often left unanswered is that ...
The complexity, cost, and down-time currently created by the database schema evolution process is the source of incessant problems in the life of information systems and a major s...