There is a great thrust in industry toward the development of more feasible and viable tools
for storing fast-growing volume, velocity, and diversity of data, termed 'big data'. The …

Internet has become so widespread that most popular websites are accessed by hundreds
of millions of people on a daily basis. Monolithic architectures, which were frequently used in …

In recent years, cloud storage systems have emerged as a promising technology for storing
data blocks on various cloud servers. One of the main mechanisms in cloud storage systems …

(n, k) fork-join queues are prevalent in popular distributed systems, erasure coding based
cloud storages, and modern network protocols like multipath routing, estimating the sojourn …

Database systems play a central role in modern data-centered applications. Their
performance is thus a key factor in the efficiency of data processing pipelines. Modern …

When using database management systems (DBMSs), it is common to distribute instance
replicas across multiple locations for disaster recovery and scaling purposes. To efficiently …

Objective: NoSQL database management systems (DBMSs) are designed to handle large‐
scale data for modern applications. These systems often operate in a distributed manner …

Health facilities produce an increasing and vast amount of data that must be efficiently
analyzed. New approaches for healthcare monitoring are being developed every day and …

As big data applications are becoming more and more popular, in view of the difficulties we
had encountered in the application of traditional relational databases in the field of big data …

In this article, a media storm indexing mechanism is presented, where media storms are
defined as fast incoming batches. We propose an approximate media storm indexing …