Joint evaluation of performance and robustness of a COTS DBMS through fault-injection

Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 251-260

  Costa, Diamantino ^a   Rilho, Tiago ^a   Madeira, Henrique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMON OFF-THE-SHELF SYSTEMS; DEPENDABILITY; FAULT-INJECTION; SOFTWARE FAULTS;

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE; RELIABILITY;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0034590172     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDSN.2000.857547     Document Type: Conference Paper

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