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Breaking the Memory Wall in MonetDB
In this paper, we report how research around the MonetDB database system has led to a redesign of database architecture in order to take advantage of modern hardware...
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Polaris: A System For Query, Analysis, and Visualization of Multidimensional Databases
In this paper, we address these demands by presenting the Polaris formalism, a visual query language for precisely describing a wide range of table-based graphical...
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Technical Perspective: Safeguarding Online Information Against Failures and Attacks
Users need storage that is highly reliable (it is not lost) and highly available (accessible when needed). Guaranteeing...
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Technical Perspective: The Polaris Tableau System
Jim Gray nominated the Polaris paper for the Research Highlights section and wrote the first draft of this Technical Perspective in November 2006. David Patterson...
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Zyzzyva: Speculative Byzantine Fault Tolerance
A longstanding vision in distributed systems is to build reliable systems from unreliable components. An enticing formulation of this vision is Byzantine fault-tolerant...
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