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Consensus on Transaction Commit
Jim Gray, Leslie Lamport
The distributed transaction commit problem requires reaching agreement on whether a transaction is committed or aborted. The classic Two-Phase Commit protocol blocks if the coordin…
There Goes the Neighborhood: Relational Algebra for Spatial Data Search
Jim Gray, Alexander S. Szalay, Aniruddha R. Thakar +5
We explored ways of doing spatial search within a relational database: (1) hierarchical triangular mesh (a tessellation of the sphere), (2) a zoned bucketing system, and (3) repres…
The Revolution In Database System Architecture
Jim Gray
Database system architectures are undergoing revolutionary changes. Algorithms and data are being unified by integrating programming languages with the database system. This gives…
A Quick Look at SATA Disk Performance
Tom Barclay, Wyman Chong, Jim Gray
We have been investigating the use of low-cost, commodity components for multi-terabyte SQL Server databases. Dubbed storage bricks, these servers are white box PCs containing the…
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Science Archive: Migrating a Multi-Terabyte Astronomical Archive from Object to Relational DBMS
Aniruddha R. Thakar, Alexander S. Szalay, Peter Z. Kunszt +1
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Science Archive is the first in a series of multi-Terabyte digital archives in Astronomy and other data-intensive sciences. To facilitate data mining i…
Distributed Computing Economics
Jim Gray
Computing economics are changing. Today there is rough price parity between (1) one database access, (2) ten bytes of network traffic, (3) 100,000 instructions, (4) 10 bytes of dis…