Monday, October 29, 2012

IEEE Computer issue on the CAP Theorem

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Due to Hurricane Sandy, Yale gave me a day off from teaching today and I have finally been able to get to a few things on my "to-do...
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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Defending Matt Welsh’s 'Startup University' Post

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A week ago, Matt Welsh released a blog post  on attaching a startup incubator to a university in order to create a funding model for some ...
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

If all these new DBMS technologies are so scalable, why are Oracle and DB2 still on top of TPC-C? A roadmap to end their dominance.

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(This post is coauthored by Alexander Thomson and Daniel Abadi ) In the last decade, database technology has arguably progressed furthest...
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Replication and the latency-consistency tradeoff

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As 24/7 availability becomes increasingly important for modern applications, database systems are frequently replicated in order to stay up ...
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Overview of the Oracle NoSQL Database

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Oracle is the clear market leader in the commercial database community, and therefore it is critical for any member of the database communit...
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Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Hadoop's tremendous inefficiency on graph data management (and how to avoid it)

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Hadoop is great. It seems clear that it will serve as the basis of the vast majority of analytical data management within five years. Alrea...
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Thursday, May 19, 2011

Why Sam Madden is wrong about peer review

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Yesterday my former PhD advisor, Sam Madden, wrote a blog post consisting of a passionate defense for the status quo in the peer review pro...
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