Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment

Recently, a number of papers have been published showing the benefits of column stores over row stores. However, the research comparing the two in an "apples-to-apples" way has left a number of unresolved questions. In this paper, we first discuss the ...

In the near future, commodity hardware is expected to incorporate both flash and magnetic disks. In this paper we study how the storage layer of a database system can benefit from the presence of both kinds of disk. We propose using the flash and the ...

Rose is a database storage engine for high-throughput replication. It targets seek-limited, write-intensive transaction processing workloads that perform near real-time decision support and analytical processing queries. Rose uses log structured merge (...