Scalable database management systems (DBMS)---both for update intensive application
workloads as well as decision support systems for descriptive and deep analytics---are a …

In the last two decades, the continuous increase of computational power has produced an
overwhelming flow of data. Moreover, the recent advances in Web technology has made it …

This paper argues that the data warehouse architecture as we know it today will wither in the
coming years and be replaced by a new architectural pattern, the Lakehouse, which will (i) …

Indexes are models: a\btree-Index can be seen as a model to map a key to the position of a
record within a sorted array, a Hash-Index as a model to map a key to a position of a record …

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms and" serverless" cloud computing are becoming
increasingly popular. Current FaaS offerings are targeted at stateless functions that do …

Spanner is Google's scalable, multiversion, globally distributed, and synchronously
replicated database. It is the first system to distribute data at global scale and support …

The increasing popularity of cloud storage services has lead companies that handle critical
data to think about using these services for their storage needs. Medical record databases …

The paper is focused on so called NoSQL databases. In context of cloud computing,
architectures and basic features of these databases are studied, particularly their horizontal …

Key-value (KV) stores have become a backbone of large-scale applications in today's data
centers. The data set of the store on a single server can grow to billions of KV items or many …

Recently the cloud computing paradigm has been receiving significant excitement and
attention in the media and blogosphere. To some, cloud computing seems to be little more …