Suppose we have a large table T of items i, each with a weight wi, e.g., people and their salary. In a general preprocessing step for estimating arbitrary subset sums, we assign e...
Noga Alon, Nick G. Duffield, Carsten Lund, Mikkel ...
In this paper we explore database segmentation in the context of a column-store DBMS targeted at a scientific database. We present a novel hardware- and scheme-oblivious segmentati...
It is well known that transactional and analytical systems each require different database architecture. In general, the database structure of transactional systems is optimized f...
Network monitoring systems that support data archival and after-the-fact (retrospective) queries are useful for a multitude of purposes, such as anomaly detection and network and ...
Recent work by the ‘CombeChem’ project together with the UK National Crystallography Service (NCS) has integrated the NCS into an e-Science environment. The existing high-thro...
Jeremy G. Frey, Sam Peppe, Mike Surridge, Ken Meac...