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...
Database caching supports declarative query processing close to the application. Using a full-fledged DBMS as cache manager, it enables the evaluation of specific project-select-...
An increasing number of applications operate on data obtained from the Web. These applications typically maintain local copies of the web data to avoid network latency in data acc...
We present XML schemas and our design for related data services for describing faults and surface displacements, which we use within earthquake modeling codes. These data services ...
Traditional GISystems are no longer appropriate for modern distributed, heterogeneous network environments due to their closed architecture, and their lack of interoperability, reu...