Distributed and Parallel Databases, Volume 2

Volume 2, Number 1, January 1994

Special Issue on Distributed/Parallel Database Object Management

Elisa Bertino, M. Tamer Özsu:
Guest Editors' Introduction. 5-6
Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi:
A Non-Restrictive Concurrency Control Protocol for Object Oriented Databases. 7-31
Nicoletta De Francesco, Gigliola Vaglini:
Concurrent Behavior: A Construct to Specify the External Behavior of Objects in Object Databases. 33-58
Arun K. Thakore, Stanley Y. W. Su:
Performance Analysis of Parallel Object-Oriented Query Processing Algorithms. 59-100
Stewart M. Clamen:
Schema Evolution and Integration. 101-126

Spencer W. Ng:
Sparing for Redundant Disk Arrays. 133-149
San-Yih Hwang, Jaideep Srivastava, Jianzhong Li:
Transaction Recovery in Federated Autonomous Databases. 151-182
Sharma Chakravarthy, Jaykumar Muthuraj, Ravi Varadarajan, Shamkant B. Navathe:
An Objective Function for Vertically Partitioning Relations in Distributed Databases and its Analysis. 183-207
Ayellet Tal, Rafael Alonso:
Integration of Commit Protocols in Hetergeneous Databases. 209-234

Special Issue on Disk Arrays

Jai Menon:
Guest Editor's Introduction. 241
Peter M. Chen, Edward K. Lee, Ann L. Drapeau, Ken Lutz, Ethan L. Miller, Srinivasan Seshan, Ken Shirriff, David A. Patterson, Randy H. Katz:
Performance and Design Evaluation of the RAID-II Storage Server. 243-260
Jai Menon:
Performance of RAID5 Disk Arrays with Read and Write Caching. 261-293
Mark Holland, Garth A. Gibson, Daniel P. Siewiorek:
Architectures and Algorithms for On-Line Failure Recovery in Redundant Disk Arrays. 295-335

Elisa Bertino, Mauro Negri, Giuseppe Pelagatti, Licia Sbattella:
Applications of Object-Oriented Technology to the Integration of Heterogeneous Database Systems. 343-370
Nabil Kamel:
Page-Query Compaction of Secondary Memory Auxilliary Databases. 371-370
Özgür Ulusoy:
Processing Real-Time Transactions in a Replicated Database System. 405-436