With the aid of atomic clocks, GPS receivers and some of the most esteemed figures in computer science, Google has crafted a planet-spanning distributed database. Google published information about ...

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Paul Henman receives funding from the Australian Research Council Discovery program to investigate the design and effectiveness of government web portals. Governments seem to think that the only way ...

The basic premise of this document is simple: to explain why distributed transactional databases are the Holy Grail of database management systems (DBMS). The promise of these systems is to provide on ...