With the emergence of new hardware technologies, new opportunities arise and existing
database architectures have to be rethought to fully exploit them. In particular, recovery …

This paper presents the architecture, implementation and evaluation of a middleware
support layer for NoSQL storage systems. Our middleware automatically selects …

Adaptive indexing is a promising alternative to classical offline index optimization. Under
adaptive indexing, index creation and re-organization take place automatically and …

With the increasing workload complexity in modern databases, the manual process of index
selection is a challenging task. There is a growing need for a database with an ability to …

There has been considerable research on automated index tuning in database
management systems (DBMSs). But the majority of these solutions tune the index …

The papers in this special section focus on green and energy efficient cloud computing.
Cloud computing has had a huge commercial impact and has attracted the interest of the …

Index selection is a crucial and essential aspect of database management systems (DBMS)
aiming to optimize performance, and it is also one of the most time-consuming and laborious …

Functional (aka immutable) data structures are used extensively in data management
systems. From distributed systems to data persistence, immutability makes complex …

Hardware components, especially CPU and memory, have made a lot of progress in terms
of energy efficiency in the last decade. However, it is still far from the ideal energy …

Renovating a database application is the act of significantly reprogramming the application
to meet new needs, extend functionality, or re-design to foster maintainability. It can be costly …