An increasing amount of personal data is automatically gathered and stored on servers by
administrations, hospitals, insurance companies, etc. Citizen themselves often count on …

Flash-memory-based solid-state drives (SSDs) are used widely for secondary storage. To be
effective for SSDs, traditional indices have to be redesigned to cope with the special …

Advancement in mobile computing technologies has prompted strong needs for database
systems that can be used in small devices such as sensors, cellular phones, PDAs, car …

Mass-storage secure portable tokens are emerging and provide a real breakthrough in the
management of sensitive data. They can embed personal data and/or metadata referencing …

A data storage device includes a storage unit, and a controller configured to control the
storage unit, wherein the controller is configured to manage a mapping between a logical …

Due to their many advantages, flash-based SSDs (Solid-State Drives) have become a
mainstream alternative to magnetic disks for database servers. Nevertheless, database …

Due to several important features, such as high performance, low power consumption, and
shock resistance, NAND flash has become a very popular stable storage medium for …

Flash-based solid state disks (SSDs) are beginning to supplant conventional rotating disks
for performance-critical data in myriad DBMS applications, including decision support …

An increasing amount of personal data is automatically gathered on servers by
administrations, hospitals and private companies while several security surveys highlight the …

Flash memory is rapidly being deployed as a data storage medium for embedded systems
and tablet computers due to its shock resistance, fast access, and low power consumption …