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FGCN
2007
IEEE
113views Communications» more  FGCN 2007»
14 years 21 days ago
Improving Disk Sector Integrity Using 3-dimension Hashing Scheme
To keep the evidence that a stored hard disk does not modify its content, the intuitive scheme is to calculate a hash value of the data in all the sectors in a specific order. Ho...
Zoe L. Jiang, Lucas Chi Kwong Hui, K. P. Chow, Siu...
CIKM
2007
Springer
14 years 16 days ago
Index compression is good, especially for random access
Index compression techniques are known to substantially decrease the storage requirements of a text retrieval system. As a side-effect, they may increase its retrieval performanc...
Stefan Büttcher, Charles L. A. Clarke
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
130views Database» more  SIGMOD 2009»
14 years 6 months ago
FlashLogging: exploiting flash devices for synchronous logging performance
Synchronous transactional logging is the central mechanism for ensuring data persistency and recoverability in database systems. Unfortunately, magnetic disks are ill-suited for t...
Shimin Chen