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

Growing main memory capacity has fueled the development of in-memory big data
management and processing. By eliminating disk I/O bottleneck, it is now possible to support …

The increases in main-memory sizes over the last decade have made pure in-memory
database systems feasible, and in-memory systems offer unprecedented performance …

Since the introduction of Bitcoin---the first widespread application driven by blockchains---
the interest in the design of blockchain-based applications has increased tremendously. At …

Hekaton is a new database engine optimized for memory resident data and OLTP
workloads. Hekaton is fully integrated into SQL Server; it is not a separate system. To take …

Cloud Computing: Theory and Practice, Third Edition provides students and IT professionals
with an in-depth analysis of the cloud from the ground up. After an introduction to network …

The two areas of online transaction processing (OLTP) and online analytical processing
(OLAP) present different challenges for database architectures. Currently, customers with …

The Communications Web site, http://cacm. acm. org, features more than a dozen bloggers
in the BLOG@ CACM community. In each issue of Communications, we'll publish excerpts …

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 …

This paper describes the VoltDB DBMS as it exists in mid 2013. The focus is on design
decisions, especially in concurrency control and high availability, as well as on the …