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Third-Generation Database System Manifesto - The Committee for Advanced DBMS Function.
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Parallel database systems: the future of database processing or a passing fad?
The concept of parallel database machines consisting of exotic hardware has been replaced by a fairly conventional shared-nothing hardware base along with a highly parallel dataflow software architecture. Such a design provides speedup and scaleup in processing relational database queries. This paper reviews the techniques used by such systems, and surveys current commercial and research systems.
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Greetings from a Filesystem User
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An approach to decentralized computer systems
The technology for distributed computing is available. However, it is argued that decentralized systems will always require more careful design, planning, and management than their centralized counterparts. The rationale for and against decentralization is given, and a technical approach to decentralized systems is sketched. This approach contrasts with the popular concept of a distributed integrated database which transparently provides remote IO against single system image. Rather, it proposes that functions be distributed as `servers' which abstract data as high-level operations on objects and communicate with `requestors' via a standard message protocol. This requestor-server approach has the advantages of modularity and performance.
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Evolution of Data Management
Society has made great strides in capturing, storing, managing, analyzing, and visualizing data. These tasks are generically called data management, and this article sketches its evolution through ...
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The Revolution Yet to Happen
By 2047 almost all information will be in cyberspace—including a large percentage of knowledge and creative works. All information about physical objects, including humans, buildings, processes, and organizations, will be online. This trend is both desirable and inevitable. Cyberspace will provide the basis for wonderful new ways to inform, entertain, and educate people. The information and the corresponding systems will streamline commerce but will also provide new levels of personal service, health care, and automation. The most significant benefit will be a breakthrough in our ability to communicate remotely with one another using all our senses.
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Why do Computer Stop and What Can be About it?
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Triumphs, Sins, and Challenges of Database Benchmarking
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Mobile technologies for the world's children
In this panel, academic, non-profit, and industry professionals will discuss their global perspectives on mobile technologies for the world's children. Panelists will explore such issues concerning children's access to mobile devices, the decreasing age that children have access to these technologies, mobile innovations for learning, and challenges/opportunities in diverse countries. This interactive session will begin with each panelist giving a short summary of their work-to-date with children and various mobile applications. Then the panelists will be asked questions by children from different countries via pre-recorded video. Audience members will be invited to offer their thoughts and comments as well as the panelists during the video question period. Audience members will also be able to ask further questions throughout the panel discussion.
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Why Do Computers Stop and What Can Be Done About It?
An analysis of the failure statistics of a commercially available fault-tolerant system shows that administration and software are the major contributors to failure. Various approaches to software fault-tolerance are then discussed -- notably process-pairs, transactions and reliable storage. It is pointed out that faults in production software are often soft (transient) and that a transaction mechanism combined with persistent processpairs provides fault-tolerant execution -- the key to software fault-tolerance.
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Why TP-Lite will Dominate the TP Market