This paper argues for better concurrency control to support mammoth transactions, which
read and write to many items. While these requests are prevalent on graph data, few …

Migrating a database schema to the next version without interrupting clients performing
queries, aka downtime, is important for many reasons. A tool to perform such transformations …

How to provide users with continuous network software services is the focus of current
computer field. As one of the keys to solving this problem, many researchers have begun to …

The need for distributed, scalable databases is larger than ever. Applications handling user-
generated data like Twitter and Facebook have a global presence, but require performance …