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Towards a One Size Fits All Database Architecture
Summary: Proposes OctopusDB: a unified 'one‑size‑fits‑all' DB that uses a logical event log as primary storage plus Storage Views (SVs) as alternative physical representations. SVs enable per‑subset row/column/stream/hybrid layouts so the system can emulate diverse engines per workload.
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h05bd8eba0a0db07b
Venue
CIDR
Year
2011
Pagerank
9.507323e-05
Overall Rank
1,845 | 87.64%
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@inproceedings{dittrich_cidr11,
address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
series = {{CIDR} '11},
title = {{Towards a One Size Fits All Database Architecture}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
author = {Dittrich, Jens and Jindal, Alekh},
year = {2011}
}
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