Os support for a commodity database on PC clusters distributed devices vs. distributed file systems

Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series

Volumn 39, Issue , 2005, Pages 145-154

  Rauch, Felix ^a,b   Stricker, Thomas M ^a,c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC MODELS; CLUSTER ARCHITECTURE; DATABASE SOFTWARE; DISTRIBUTED DEVICES; DISTRIBUTED FILE SYSTEMS; FILE SYSTEMS; GIGABIT ETHERNET; PC CLUSTERS; PERFORMANCE PROBLEMS; STORAGE SUBSYSTEMS; STORAGE SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; OSMIUM; PERSONAL COMPUTERS;

CLUSTER COMPUTING;

EID: 84873294589     PISSN: 14451336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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