Readings in Database Systems

Joseph M. Hellerstein, Michael Stonebraker

MIT Press, 2005 - Database management - 865 pages

The latest edition of a popular text and reference on database research, with substantial new material and revision; covers classical literature and recent hot topics.

Lessons from database research have been applied in academic fields ranging from bioinformatics to next-generation Internet architecture and in industrial uses including Web-based e-commerce and search engines. The core ideas in the field have become increasingly influential. This text provides both students and professionals with a grounding in database research and a technical context for understanding recent innovations in the field. The readings included treat the most important issues in the database area--the basic material for any DBMS professional. This fourth edition has been substantially updated and revised, with 21 of the 48 papers new to the edition, four of them published for the first time. Many of the sections have been newly organized, and each section includes a new or substantially revised introduction that discusses the context, motivation, and controversies in a particular area, placing it in the broader perspective of database research. Two introductory articles, never before published, provide an organized, current introduction to basic knowledge of the field; one discusses the history of data models and query languages and the other offers an architectural overview of a database system. The remaining articles range from the classical literature on database research to treatments of current hot topics, including a paper on search engine architecture and a paper on application servers, both written expressly for this edition. The result is a collection of papers that are seminal and also accessible to a reader who has a basic familiarity with database systems.

Contents

• Michael Stonebraker and Joseph M Hellerstein: 42
• Query Processing: 96
• P Griffiths Selinger M M Astrahan D D Chamberlin R A Lorie and T G Price: 115
• The Future of High Performance Database Systems: 141
• Encapsulation of Parallelism in the Volcano Query Processing System: 155
• Chris Nyberg Tom Barclay Zarka Cvetanovic Jim Gray and Dave Lomet: 175
• Data Storage and Access Methods: 202
• Norbert Beckmann HansPeter Kriegel Ralf Schneider and Bernhard Seeger: 217
• Jim Gray and Goetz Graefe: 230
• Transaction Management: 238
• Jim N Gray Raymond A Lorie Gianfranco R Putzolu and Irving L Traiger: 274
• Alternatives and Implications: 288
• Rakesh Agrawal Michael J Carey and Miron Livny: 334
• Lehman and S Bing: 355
• Mohan Don Haderle Bruce Lindsay Hamid Pirahesh and Peter Schwarz: 424
• Mohan Bruce Lindsay and R Obermarck: 443
• Inclusion of New Types In Relational Data Base Systems: 459
• Hellerstein Jeffrey F Naughton and Avi Pfeffer: 478
• AutoAdmin Whatif Index Analysis Utility: 492
• Algorithms for Creating Indexes for Very Large Tables Without Quiescing Updates: 516
• An Overview of Data Warehousing and OLAP Technology: 532
• Surajit Chaudhuri and Umeshwar Dayal: 542
• Patrick ONeil and Dallan Quass: 553
• Jim Gray Surajit Chaudhuri Adam Bosworth Andrew Layman Don Reichart and Murali Venkatrao: 581
• Yihong Zhao Prasad M Deshpande and Jeffrey F Naughton: 591
• Stefano Ceri and Jennifer Widom: 604
• A Dynamic View Management System for Data Warehouses: 638
• Data Mining: 650
• Introduction 650: 668
• John Shafer Rakesh Agrawal and Manish Mehta: 679
• Rakesh Agrawal and Ramakrishnan Srikant: 693
• Web Services and Data Bases: 705
• A Search Engine Retrospective: 711
• The Anatomy of a LargeScale Hypertextual Web Search Engine: 725
• The BINGO System for Information Portal Generation and Expert Web Search: 745
• Enabling Query Formulation and Optimization in Semistructured Databases 786: 756
• and Patrick Zimmer: 760
• Querying SemiStructured Data: 768
• Serge Abiteboul: 793
• Roy Goldman and Jennifer Widom: 796
• Scalable Trigger Processing: 814
• This: 818
• Praveen Seshadri Miron Livny and Raghu Ramakrishnan: 835
• Ron Avnur and Joseph M Hellerstein: 848
• Sources: 862
• Mohan and Inderpal Narang: 864

About the author

Michelle A. Mullen, M.H.P., Ph.D., is a member of the Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, and Institute of Women's Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ottawa. She is also a Bioethicist with Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario. She has published across broad cognate areas, including basic and clinical research, policy analyses, and in consultation with government, including Canada's Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Readings in Database Systems; Mit Press
• Editors: Joseph M. Hellerstein, Michael Stonebraker
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: MIT Press, 2005
• ISBN: 0262693143, 9780262693141
• Length: 865 pages