In the last fifty years the world has been completely transformed through the use of IT. We have now reached a new inflection point. This book presents, for the

In the last 50 years the world has been completely transformed through the use of IT. We have now reached a new inflection point. Here we present, for the first

Recent achievements in hardware and software development, such as multi-core CPUs and DRAM capacities of multiple terabytes per server, enabled the introduction

This book explores the implications of non-volatile memory (NVM) for database management systems (DBMSs). The advent of NVM will fundamentally change the dichot

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