A dependability benchmark for OLTP application environments

Proceedings - 29th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 742-753

  Vieira, Marco ^a   Madeira, Henrique ^b  

^a POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE SOLUTIONS; APPLICATION ENVIRONMENT; CRITICAL SYSTEMS; DAILY LIVES; ONLINE TRANSACTION PROCESSING; TRANSACTIONAL SYSTEMS;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 85012164894     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/b978-012722442-8/50071-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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