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Database Systems Laboratory
Department of Computer Science
University of Massachusetts, Amherst


The Database Systems Laboratory is part of the Computer Science Department at the University of Massachusetts. Our current research activities deal with enhancing performance and availability of applications that require transaction support through the use of semantic information about the objects, operations, transaction model, and the application.

Principal Investigator

Prof. Krithi Ramamritham

PhD Students

Current

Mohan U. Kamath
Cris Pedregal Martin

Past

B. R. Badrinath (Associate Professor of Computer Science at Rutgers University)
Panos Chrysanthis (Assistant Professor of Computer Science at University of Pittsburgh)
Lory D. Molesky(Oracle Corporation)

Research Areas and Related Publications

Previous Projects:

Semantics Based Concurrency Control
Specifying & Reasoning about Extended Transaction Models - ACTA Framework
Formal Characteristics & Performance Aspects of Epsilon Serializability

Current Projects:

Language Support for Extended Transaction Models
Support for Recovery in Shared Memory Database Systems
Data Sharing schemes for Multimedia Database Systems
Transaction Management and Query Processing in Massive Digital Databases
Workflow Management and Support for Advanced Database Applications

Funding Agencies

National Science Foundation
Sun Microsystems Lab

More Information

Complete list of Publications
About the Lab
Other Research Groups in the CS Department
UMass Computer Science Technical Reports

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Links to Various Research/Development Areas Related to Databases...

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Active Databases

University of Florida
University of Michigan
University of Colorado, Boulder
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Heriot-Watt University, UK
University of Linz, Austria

Concurrency Control

(See Transaction Management)

Cooperative Problem Solving (DB centric) & CSCW

CSCW Page
University of Florida
GMD, Germany
Technical University of Meunchen, Germany

Data Warehousing

Stanford University
Data Warehousing Conference

Database Archiving

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)

Database Benchmarks/Tuning/Performance

007 Benchmark, University of Wisconsin
TPC Benchmarks
Sequoia Benchmark, University of California, Berkeley
City University of London (PRIMA project)
OOPSLA'95 Workshop on Benchmarks and Performance

Database Interfaces

(See Visualization & User Interfaces)

Database Security & Authorization

George Mason University
Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Data/Knowledge Mining & Discovery

GTE Labs
IBM Almaden Research Center
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Alomos Nations Lab
University of British Columbia, Canada

Data Models/Schemas

University of Pennsylvania
Telenor, Norway

Database Programming Languages

University of Pennsylvania
University of Massachusetts (Object Systems Lab)
SQL Standards
TSQL2 (Temporal Extensions to SQL), University of Arizona

Deductive Databases

(See Intelligent and Deductive Databases)

Digital Libraries

University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Santa Barbara
Carnegie Mellon University
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Michigan
Stanford University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
IBM

(Also see Massive Digital Databases)

Distributed Data Management

University of California, Berkeley
University of Maryland
University of Florida
University of Erlangen, Germany

Extended/Advanced Transaction Models/Management

(See Transaction Management)

Engineering and Design Databases

ETH Zurich, Switzerland
University of Erlangen, Germany

Federated/Heterogeneous Information Systems & Interoperability

Stanford University
University of Florida
Purdue University
Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC)
Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
University of Manitoba, Canada
University of Zurich, Switzerland
X/Open Group
Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), OMG
System Object Model (SOM), IBM Corp
OpenDM, C-Lab Germany

Hypermedia

Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC)
University of Michigan
University of Linz, Austria
Fraunhofer Institute, Germany

Indexing Techniques

Northeastern University

Intelligent and Deductive Databases

University of Wisconsin
University of California, Los Angeles
Georgia Tech
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Heriot-Watt University, UK

Internet-Information / WWW

Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC)
University of Colorado
University of Georgia
Stanford University
University of Alberta, Canada
AT&T Bell Labs
University of Melbourne, Australia

Knowledge Based Systems

University of Texas, Austin
University of Toronto, Canada
University of California, Los Angeles
University of Twente, Netherlands

Legacy Data / Reengineering

ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Reasoning Systems, Inc. (Paper Collection)

(Also see Workflow Management)

Logical & Physical Database Design

Politecnico di Milano, Italy
University of Zurich, Switzerland

Massive-Digital-Databases / Text-Databases / Information-Retrieval

MDDS Workgroup
University of California, Berkeley
University of Massachusetts (Database Lab)
University of Massachusetts (Information Retrieval Lab)
Northeastern University
University of Arizona
High Performance Storage System Development Team
NASA - GSFC
National Storage Lab (LLNL)
GMD, Germany
ETH Zurich, Switzerland

(Also see Digital Libraries)

Mobile/Wireless/Personal Computing

Rutgers University
Purdue University
University of Washington
Stanford University
University of California, Los Angeles

Multidatabase Systems

University of Waterloo, Canada
Queen's University, Canada

Multimedia Databases

University of Minnesota
University of California, Los Angeles
Oregon Graduate Institute
University of Massachusetts
Indiana University
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
IRST, Italy
University of Palermo, Italy
Heriot-Watt University, UK
IBM Almaden Research Center (Garlic Project)
Text, Image and Video (IBM Almaden Research Center)
GMD, Germany
University of Erlangen, Germany
Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
University of Alberta, Canada

Object-Oriented Databases

University of Wisconsin
University of Michigan
Brown University
University of Virginia
GTE Laboratories
INRIA, France
University of Alberta, Canada
University of Manitoba, Canada
University of Twente, Netherlands
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
University of Linz, Austria
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Edinburgh University, UK
Linköping University, Sweden
Object Database Management Group
OOPSLA'95 Workshop

Open Architecture & Extensible Systems

(See Federated/Heterogeneous Information Systems)

Parallel/Distributed Databases

University of Wisconsin
University of Twente, Netherlands
Heriot-Watt University, UK

Partial Information

University of Pennsylvania

Query Processing & Optimization

Oregon Graduate Institute
IBM Almaden Research Center
Sequent Computer Systems
Sybase Inc. (White Paper on Query Accelerator)
Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Real-Time Databases

University of Massachusetts
University of Virginia
University of Michigan
Stanford University
Boston University
Bilkent University, Turkey

Recovery

(See Transaction Management)

Scientific Databases

Oregon Graduate Institute
University of Michigan
University of Erlangen, Germany

Spatial Databases

University of Wisconsin
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Heriot-Watt University, UK
University of Waterloo, Canada
University of Minnesota

Temporal Databases

University of Florida
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Edinburgh University, UK

Transaction Models/Management (Traditional & Advanced)

University of Massachusetts (Recovery in Shared Memory DBMS)
University of Massachusetts (Language Support for Extended Transactions)
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
Oregon Graduate Institute
University of Massachusetts (ACTA Framework)
University of Massachusetts (Epsilon Serializability)
University of Massachusetts (Semantics based CC)

Visualization & User Interfaces

IBM Almaden Research Center
University of California, Berkeley
University of Toronto, Canada
University of Washington
University of Michigan
Virginia Tech
Heriot-Watt University, UK

Workflow Management

IBM Almaden Research Center
University of Massachusetts
University of Georgia
University of Twente, Netherlands
University of Zurich, Switzerland
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
University of Erlangen, Germany
Fraunhofer Institute, Germany
Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC)
George Mason University (Workflow Tutorial)

Links to Other Interesting Database Related Pages:

Special Interest Groups, Organizations, ...

ACM SIGMOD Information Server
ACM SIGIR Information Server
ACM SIGOIS Information Server
ACM SIGMM Information Server
Object Management Group Home Page
Object Database Management Group Home Page
X/Open Home Page
VLDB Endowment
WARIA (Workflow And Reengineering International Association)

Languages, Standards, Architectures, Tutorials ...

SQL Standards Home Page
SQL Information Home Page
TSQL2 Standard Home Page
007 Benchmark Home Page
TPC Benchmark Page
Sequoia Benchmark
Exhaustive List of Benchmarks
X/Open Specifications Page
Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA)
System Object Model (SOM)
Object Linking and Embedding (OLE)
Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC)
Workflow Tutorial

University Research Labs ...

University of Wisconsin, Madison
Stanford University
University of California, Berkeley
University Of Illinois, Urbana
University of Maryland, College Park
University of Virginia, Charlottesville
University of Georgia, Athens
Georgia Tech
Rutgers University
University of Florida
University of Illinois
Columbia University
Brown University
Northwestern University
Oregon Graduate Institute
Indiana University
Purdue University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
University of Pennsylvania
University of Colorado, Boulder
University of Toronto, Canada
University of Alberta, Canada
University of Waterloo, Canada
University of Manitoba, Canada
University of British Columbia, Canada
Queen's University, Canada
University of Erlangen, Germany
Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
National Technical University of Athens, Greece
University of Twente, Netherlands
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Linkoping University, Sweden
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
University of Zurich, Switzerland
University of Linz, Austria
Technical University of Vienna, Austria
University of Melbourne, Australia
Edinburgh University, UK
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
KAIST, Korea

Industrial/Government Research Labs ...

IBM Almaden Research Center
AT&T Bell Labs
GTE Labs (GTE DOM Project Papers)
Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC)
Microsoft Research
Matsushita Information Technology Laboratory
Lawrence Berkeley Lab
NASA-GSFC
INRIA, France
GMD, Germany

Research Programs/Initiatives/Projects ...

Massive Digital Data Systems
The National Information Infrastructure
Information Infrastructure Technology and Applications
High Performance Storage System
Digital Library Initiative
Human Genome Database Project
Intelligent Database Environment for Advanced Applications (IDEA) Project in Europe

Research Conferences & Workshops ...

ICDE
SIGMOD
VLDB
EDBT
CIKM
DASFAA
ADL
HPTS
DEXA
CoopIS
CISMOD
PDIS
Exhaustive List of Database Conferences
Another List of Database Conferences

Research Journals & Bulletins ...

ACM SIGMOD Record
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
ACM Transactions on (Office) Information Systems (TOIS)
ACM Computing Surveys
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
IEEE Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Data Engineering
International Journal of Distributed and Parallel Databases
Distributed Systems Engineering Journal
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS)
Information Systems
The VLDB Journal

Bibliography & Tech Reports ...

Search Database Research Bibliography at Warp Speed
Search bibliography on Databases (based on Glimpse)
Search Database Bibliography using Author's name
Bibliography on Implementation of Database Systems
CS Tech Report Index
Database Archive at University of London

Database Text Books ...

Atomic Transactions: N. Lynch, M. Merritt, W. Weihl and A. Fekete
Transaction Processing Concepts and Techniques: Jim Gray and Andreas Reuter
Camelot and Avalon - A Distributed Transaction Facility: J. Eppinger and others
Readings in Groupware and CSCW- Assisting Human-Human Collab.: R. M. Baecker
Building an Object-Oriented Database System: F. Bancilhon and others
Database Transaction Models for Advanced Applications: Ahmed K. Elmagarmid
Database Principles, Programming, Performance: Patrick E. O'Neil
Query Processing for Advanced Database Systems: J. Freytag, D. Maier and G. Vossen
Readings in Database Systems (2nd Edition): Michael Stonebraker
Readings in Object-Oriented Database Systems: S. Zdonik and D. Maier
Distributed Object Management: M. T. Özsu, U. Dayal anad P. Valduriez
Object Databases - The Essentials: Mary E. S. Loomis
Principles of Distributed Database Systems: M. T. Ozsu and P. Valduriez
OO Multidatabase Systems: A Solution for Adv. Apps.: O. Bukhres and A. Elmagarmid
Object-Oriented Databases: D. Chorafas and H. Steinmann
OODB With Applications To Case, Networks and VLSI CAD: R. Gupta and E. Horowitz
Performance of Concurrency Control Mechanisms in Centralized DBMS: V. Kumar
Principles of Relational Database Systems: S. Mitra
OO Database Management - Applications in Engr. and CS: A. Kemper and G. Moerkotte
Database Processing - Fundamentals, Design, and Implementation: David M. Kroenke
Analysis and Design of Business Information Systems: M. Martin
Systems Analysis and Design: K. Kendall and K. Kendall
MIS: A Study of Computerbased Information Systems: R. McLeod
Management Information Systems: Learning Exercises and Applications: S. Rahmatian
Database Design: G. Wiederhold
Advances in Database Programming Languages: F. Bancilhon and P. Buneman
Database Security: S. Castano and others
Modern Database Systems - The Object Model, Interoperability, & Beyond: W. Kim
Object-Oriented Concepts, Databases and Applications: W. Kim and F. Lochovsky
Database System Concepts: H. F. Korth and A. Silberschatz (requires registration)
Distributed Databases: Stefano Ceri and Giuseppe Pelagatti (requires registration)
Object-Oriented Databases: Alan W. Brown (requires registration)
Information Retrieval Text (C. J. van RIJSBERGEN, Univ of Glasgow, UK)

Professional Books and Magazines ...

A Guide to Developing Client/Server SQL Applications: S. Khoshafian and others
Understanding the New SQL - A Complete Guide: J. Melton and A. Simon
The Object Database Standard - ODMG-93, Release 1.1: R. Cattell and others
Computer-Supported Cooperative Work - A Book of Readings: Irene Greif
Object-Oriented Technology - A Manager's Guide: David A. Taylor
Object Databases - The Essentials: Mary E. S. Loomis
Client/Server Computing for Technical Professionals: J. Hart and B. Rosenberg
DBMS Directions - From Relational to Distrib., Multimedia and OO DBMS: J. Larson
Select SQL: The Relational Database Language: L. Newcomer
Database Management: Principles and Products: C. Bontempo and C. Saracco
Learning SQL: J. Gustafson
Learning Advanced SQL: J. Gustafson
Decision Support and Executive Information Systems: P. Gray
Decision Support Systems and Expert Systems: E. Turban
Strategic Information Systems: Competition Through IT: S. Neumann
Strategic Management in Information Technology: D. Yoffie
Essentials of Management Information Systems: K. Laudon and J. Laudon
Managing Information Technology: What Managers Need to Know: E. Martin and others
Datamation Magazine
DBMS Magazine
Database Programming and Design Magazine
InformationWeek Magazine

Database related Newsgroups ...

comp.databases
comp.databases.theory
comp.object
comp.groupware
comp.client-server
comp.databases.olap

Database related FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) ...

comp.client-server FAQ
comp.groupware FAQ

System & Application Developers Conferences & Expos ...

DB EXPO
Database & Client/ServerWorld
OSF DCE User & Developer Conference
Data Warehousing Conference

Commercial Products & Services :

Relational DBMSs ...

IBM (DB2 Family)
Oracle (Oracle7 & others)
Sybase (Sybase11 & others)
Informix (OnLine & others)
OpenIngres
Tandem (NonStop SQL)
Microsoft (Access) and Microsoft (SQL Server)
Borland (dBASE & Paradox)
Progress
Gupta
Btrieve
VMark
Pick
Unidata
Red Brick Systems
Empress
PrimaBase
Solid Technology
Just Logic
Mimer

Object-Oriented DBMSs ...

Object Design (ObjectStore)
Versant
Gemstone
Objectivity
O2 Technology
Ontos
OpenODB
Poet

Object-Relational DBMSs ...

Illustra
Matisse
Omniscience
Polyhedra
ODB-II
IBM (DB2 Extensions)

Persistent Data Servers ...

Kala

TP Monitors ...

IBM (CICS) and IBM (IMS)
Transarc (Encina)
Novell (Tuxedo)
Tandem (NonStop TM/MP) and Tandem (NonStop Tuxedo)
Digital (ACMS)

Security Products ...

Tandem (Atalla)

Distributed Database Products ...

IBM (DRDA)

Backup/Replication/Archiving Products ...

IBM
Tandem (RDF)
Datatools
OpenVision (OpenV*NetBackup)

Workflow, Groupware and related products/services ...

IBM (FlowMark)
Action Technology (ActionWorkflow)
Filenet (WorkFlo)
Digital (LinkWorks)
Xerox (XSoft)
Remedy Corporation (Action Request System)
Lotus (Notes)
Taligent (CommonPoint)
WorkMedia (Work Software Yellow Pages)

Information-Retrieval Products & Services ...

Excalibur
Information Dimensions
Dataflight Software
Fulcrum
Xerox
Arachnae
Concordance
Oracle
InfoSeek

Parallel Databases ...

IBM (DB2 Parallel Edition)

Multimedia Databases ...

Oracle (Media Server)
IBM (Ultimedia Manager)
Core (ImageNet)

Database Performance Tools/Software ...

Database Excelleration Systems

Other Database Tools/Software & Services ...

BMC Software
Computer Associates
Intersolv
WizSoft
PeopleSoft
Platinum Technology
Steptools (Product Data Management)
EXPRESS Data Manager (Product Data Management)
PDMIC (Product Data Management)
Subtleware (Subtle Software)
MDL Info. Systems
Cognos (PowerPlay) and Cognos (Impromptu)

FAQs, Resources, Newsgroups on Commercial products ...

Oracle FAQ
comp.databases.sybase FAQ
Informix FAQ
comp.databases.paradox FAQ
FoxPro Page
RDBMS Comparison Matrix
comp.databases.oracle
comp.databases.sybase
comp.databases.informix
comp.databases.ingres
comp.databases.pick
comp.databases.rdb
comp.databases.gupta
comp.databases.ms-access
comp.databases.xbase.fox
comp.databases.paradox
comp.sys.mac.databases
comp.lang.basic.visual.database

Public Domain Database Software ...

Ingres (RDBMS from UC Berkeley)
Postgres (Extensible RDBMS from UC Berkeley)
Mariposa (Distributed DBMS from UC Berkeley)
Exodus (Extensible DBMS from U Wisconsin, Madison )
EOS (AT&T Bell Labs' Storage Manager)
ODE (OODBMS from AT&T Bell Labs)
VODAK (OODBMS from GMD-IPSI, Germany) Web Page
MiniSQL(Hughes Technology, Australia)
W3-mSQL(World Wide Web gateway to MiniSQL)
OBST (OODBMS from FZI, Karlsruhe, Germany)
Texas Persistent Store (U Texas, Austin)
LINCKS (OODBMS from Linkoping University, Sweden)
LEAP (RDBMS from Oxford Brookes University, UK)
Pallace Athena (OODBMS from Oxford Brookes University, UK)
Rock&Roll (Deductive OODBMS from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK)
Baegle SQL
DBasics Shareware
Miscellaneous Data Management Shareware
Catalog of Free Database Systems (ftp version)

Database Related Information maintained by others ...

Databases and Logic Programming
Web Connection for Database Researchers and Developers
Online Analytical Processing, Data Warehousing and Decision Support Systems
Early history of System R and SQL
SQL Tutorial Page

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