Database Patchwork on the Internet

Summary: Java-based distributed DB for Internet-scale, portable across machines and data sources. Supports dynamic loading of external query operators from any provider, placeable anywhere in the plan to enable novel join methods and cross-provider computation. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3151
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1999
Pagerank: 4.1945683e-05
Overall Rank: 12,713 | 11.56%
DOI: -

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151	Optimizing Queries across Diverse Data Sources	1997	VLDB	0.00041016476
346	Don't Scrap It, Wrap It! A Wrapper Architecture for Legacy Data Sources	1997	VLDB	0.00026656272

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