Today's emerging needs (Internet of Things applications, Network Function Virtualization
services, Mobile Edge computing, etc.) are challenging the classic approach of deploying a …

The first edition of this book appeared in 1991 when the technology was new and there were
not too many products. In the Preface to the first edition, we had quoted Michael Stonebraker …

Storage as a Service (StaaS) is a vital component of cloud computing by offering the vision
of a virtually infinite pool of storage resources. It supports a variety of cloud-based data store …

We live in an increasingly interconnected world, with many organizations operating across
countries or even continents. To serve their global user base, organizations are replacing …

In episode 217 of Software Engineering Radio, host Charles Anderson talks with James
Turnbull, a software developer and security specialist who's vice president of services at …

A new class of database management systems (DBMSs) called NewSQL tout their ability to
scale modern on-line transaction processing (OLTP) workloads in a way that is not possible …

Minimizing coordination, or blocking communication between concurrently executing
operations, is key to maximizing scalability, availability, and high performance in database …

NoSQL systems have gained their popularity for many reasons, including the flexibility they
provide in organizing data, as they relax the rigidity provided by the relational model and by …

The global scale and challenging requirements of modern cloud applications have led to the
development of complex, widely distributed, service-oriented applications. One enabler of …

We study two succinct representation systems for relational data based on relational algebra
expressions with unions, Cartesian products, and singleton relations: f-representations …