With growing memory sizes and memory prices dropping by a factor of 10 every 5 years, data having a "primary home" in memory is now a reality. Main-memory datab

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

This book provides basic knowledge about main memory management in relational databases as it is needed to support large-scale applications processed completely

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