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Shard (database architecture)

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Purpose - Entrepreneurs interact with others and, through this, benefit from access to knowledge, resources and skills that enhance their own entrepreneurial and organizational capabilities. This paper aims to contribute to the literature interested in ide ...

Emerald Group Publishing Ltd2017

Visual Patterns Discovery in Large Databases of Paintings

Frédéric Kaplan, Isabella Di Lenardo, Benoît Laurent Auguste Seguin

The digitization of large databases of works of arts photographs opens new avenue for research in art history. For instance, collecting and analyzing painting representations beyond the relatively small number of commonly accessible works was previously ex ...

2016

Cheap Data Analytics using Cold Storage Devices

Anastasia Ailamaki, Raja Appuswamy, Renata Borovica-Gajic

Enterprise databases use storage tiering to lower capital and operational expenses. In such a setting, data waterfalls from an SSD-based high-performance tier when it is "hot" (frequently accessed) to a disk-based capacity tier and finally to a tape-based ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2016

Integration of outdoor human comfort in a building energy simulation database using CityGML Energy Ade

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Dasaraden Mauree, Silvia Coccolo

Handling data needed by Building Energy Simulation (BES) tools can be a tedious task, especially at the urban scale. Besides BES, users often have different needs (building energy use, human comfort, integration of renewables, urban planning…) in mind when ...

vdf Hochschulverlag AG ETH Zurich2016

Critical heat flux: Performance of R1234yf, R1234ze and R134a in an aluminum multi-minichannel heat sink at high saturation temperatures

John Richard Thome

In this paper, new saturated critical heat flux (CHF) values at medium-to-high saturation temperatures are presented for an aluminum multi-minichannel test section. Among the possible working fluids, R134a and the low GWP refrigerants R1234yf and R1234ze h ...

Elsevier France-Editions Scientifiques Medicales Elsevier2016

Databases and Hardware: The Beginning and Sequel of a Beautiful Friendship

Anastasia Ailamaki

Fast query and transaction processing is the goal of 40 years of database research and the reason of existence for many new database system architectures. In data management, system performance means acceptable response time and throughput on critical-path ...

2015

Just-In-Time Data Virtualization: Lightweight Data Management with ViDa

Anastasia Ailamaki, Miguel Sérgio De Oliveira Branco, Thomas Heinis, Manolis Karpathiotakis, Ioannis Alagiannis

As the size of data and its heterogeneity increase, traditional database system architecture becomes an obstacle to data analysis. Integrating and ingesting (loading) data into databases is quickly becoming a bottleneck in face of massive data as well as i ...

2015

Query Optimization in Oracle 12c Database In-Memory

Ramachandra Satyanarayana Valluri

Traditional on disk row major tables have been the dominant storage mechanism in relational databases for decades. Over the last decade, however, with explosive growth in data volume and demand for faster analytics, has come the recognition that a differen ...

2015

Mynodbcsv: Lightweight Zero-Config Database Solution for Handling Very Large CSV Files

Volumes of data used in science and industry are growing rapidly. When researchers face the challenge of analyzing them, their format is often the first obstacle. Lack of standardized ways of exploring different data layouts requires an effort each time to ...

Public Library Science2014

Abstraction without regret in database systems building: a manifesto

Christoph Koch

It has been said that all problems in computer science can be solved by adding another level of indirection, except for performance problems, which are solved by removing levels of indirection. Compilers are our tools for removing levels of indirection aut ...

2014

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