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...Peter A. Boncz, Martin L. Kersten, Stefan Manegold From Communications of the ACM | December 2008
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...Chris Stolte, Diane Tang, Pat Hanrahan From Communications of the ACM | November 2008
Users need storage that is highly reliable (it is not lost) and highly available (accessible when needed). Guaranteeing...Barbara Liskov From Communications of the ACM | November 2008
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...Jim Gray From Communications of the ACM | November 2008
A longstanding vision in distributed systems is to build reliable systems from unreliable components. An enticing formulation of this vision is Byzantine fault-tolerant...Ramakrishna Kotla, Allen Clement, Edmund Wong, Lorenzo Alvisi, Mike Dahlin From Communications of the ACM | November 2008
Wireless sensor networks represent a new computing platform that blends computation, sensing, and communication...Feng Zhao From Communications of the ACM | July 2008