The landscape for database management systems is changing more rapidly these days than it has since the earliest days of the relational DBMS. Not only do we have an onslaught of NoSQL database systems ...

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Growth in intelligent connected devices is soaring. Whether in the home, the pocket or built into industrial communications and transportation systems, such gear has evolved to include powerful CPUs ...

The basic premise of this document is simple: to explain why distributed transactional databases are the Holy Grail of database management systems (DBMS). The promise of these systems is to provide on ...

What is a distributed system? A distributed system is a collection of independent computers that appear to the user as a single coherent system. To accomplish a common objective, the computers in a ...