Federated transaction management (also known as multidatabase transaction management in the literature) is needed to ensure the consistency of data that is distributed across mult...
Electronic commerce is emerging as a major Websupported application. In this paper we argue that database technology can, and should, provide the backbone for a wide range of such...
Serge Abiteboul, Bernd Amann, Sophie Cluet, Anat E...
As random access memory gets cheaper, it becomes increasingly affordable to build computers with large main memories. We consider decision support workloads within the context of...
Abstract. To achieve acceptable query response times in data warehouse environments, the data have to be pre-aggregated according to the need of the applications and stored redunda...
Multi-channel information systems involve data redundancy, which, in turn, requires the implementation of synchronization mechanisms among overlapping databases. This need for peri...
Cinzia Cappiello, Chiara Francalanci, Barbara Pern...