SIGMOD Record - web edition / December 2011

ENTIRE ISSUE - 65 pages (in: PDF)

SIGMOD Officers, Committees and Awardees (also in: PDF)

Editor's Notes (in: PDF)

Articles

Optimizing Index Scans on Flash Memory SSDs

Sang-Won Lee, Eun-Mi Lee and Sangwon Park
Available in: PDF

Surveys

Parallel Data Processing with MapReduce: A Survey

Kyong-Ha Lee, Hyunsik Choi, Yon Dohn Chung, Yoon-Joon Lee and Bongki Moon
Available in: PDF

Systems and Prototypes

Processing and Visualizing Data in Tweets

Adam Marcus, Michael S. Bernstein, Osama Badar, David R. Karger, Samuel Madden and Robert C. Miller
Available in: PDF

Distinguished Database Profiles

Jiawei Han Speaks Out

Available in: PDF
URL: http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/~hanj/

Research Centers

The Database Architectures Research Group at CWI

Martin Kersten, Stefan Manegold and Sjoerd Mullender
Available in: PDF
URL: http://www.cwi.nl/research-groups/Database-Architectures

Industrial Perspectives

SAP HANA Database – Data Management for Modern Business Applications

Franz Färber, Sang Kyun Cha, Jürgen Primsch, Christof Bornhövd, Stefan Sigg and Wolfgang Lehner
Available in: PDF

Reports

Report on the 8th International Workshop on Quality in Databases (QDB 2010)

Andrea Maurino, Cinzia Cappiello, Panos Vassiliadis and Kai-Uwe Sattler
Available in: PDF
URL: http://www.dbis.prakinf.tu-ilmenau.de/QDB2010/

The Meaningful Use of Big Data: Four Perspectives – Four Challenges

Christian Bizer, Peter Boncz, Michael L. Brodie and Orri Erling
Available in: PDF
URL: http://www.sti2.org/events/2011-sti-semantic-summit

Fourth Workshop on Very Large Digital Libraries

Leonardo Candela, Paolo Manghi and Yannis Ioannidis
Available in: PDF
URL: http://www.delos.info/vldl2011/

Announcements

Fifth International Workshop on Testing Database Systems (DBTest) Call for Papers

Available in: PDF
URL: http://db.uwaterloo.ca/dbtest2011/