Most applications that access large data objects do so through file systems, but file systems provide an incomplete solution, as they maintain insufficient metadata and do not pro...
Disk I/O is a major bottleneck for query processing in database applications. This bottleneck is especially a problem for temporal databases because of their large size. Reduction...
The Grid is an emerging platform to support on-demand "virtual organisations" for coordinated resource sharing and problem solving on a global scale. The application thr...
Cassandra is a distributed storage system for managing very large amounts of structured data spread out across many commodity servers, while providing highly available service wit...
Due to the growing importance of the World Wide Web, archiving it has become crucial for preserving useful source of information. To maintain a web archive up-to-date, crawlers ha...