This paper introduces RankSQL, a system that provides a systematic and principled framework to support efficient evaluations of ranking (top-k) queries in relational database syst...
Chengkai Li, Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang, Ihab F. Ilyas...
Commercial enterprise data warehouses are typically implemented on parallel databases due to the inherent scalability and performance limitation of a serial architecture. Queries ...
Wook-Shin Han, Jack Ng, Volker Markl, Holger Kache...
Linearizability is the strongest known consistency property of shared objects. In asynchronous message passing systems, Linearizability can be achieved with 3S and a majority of c...
Marco Serafini, Dan Dobre, Matthias Majuntke, P&ea...
A common technique used to minimize I/O in data intensive applications is data declustering over parallel servers. This technique involves distributing data among several disks so...
Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu, Ali Saman Tosun, Guadalupe ...
We present the systematic design and development of a distributed query scheduling service DQS in the context of DIOM, a distributed and interoperable query mediation system 26 ...