Virtually every commercial query optimizer chooses the best plan for a query using a cost model that relies heavily on accurate cardinality estimation. Cardinality estimation erro...
Volker Markl, Vijayshankar Raman, David E. Simmen,...
We present a technique that masks failures in a cluster to provide high availability and fault-tolerance for long-running, parallelized dataflows. We can use these dataflows to im...
Mehul A. Shah, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Eric A. Brew...
Schema mappings are high-level specifications that describe the relationship between two database schemas. Two operators on schema mappings, namely the composition operator and th...
Ronald Fagin, Phokion G. Kolaitis, Lucian Popa, Wa...
Recent years have seen growing interest in effective algorithms for summarizing and querying massive, high-speed data streams. Randomized sketch synopses provide accurate approxima...
Graham Cormode, Minos N. Garofalakis, Dimitris Sac...
A transient hardware fault occurs when an energetic particle strikes a transistor, causing it to change state. These faults do not cause permanent damage, but may result in incorr...
David Walker, Lester W. Mackey, Jay Ligatti, Georg...