Database Research Resources

Table of Contents

• Bibliography
• Selected Topics: Projects, Groups and People
• Database Research Groups: Universities
• Database Research Groups: Industry & Government
• Database Textbooks
• Documentation and FAQs
• Miscellany

Bibliography

• DBLP: Databases & Logic Programming Bibliography
  • Mirror at ACM
  • Mirror in Hong Kong
• CoRR: Computing Research Repository (LANL)
  • NCSTRL
• Bibliographies on Database Research (Universitat Karlsruhe)
  • Mirror at Imperial College
• Database Publication Servers (ACM SIGMOD)
• WebBib: Distributed Systems Bibligraphy (Wisconsin)

Selected Topics: Projects, Groups and People

• Transactions and concurrency control
  • Semantics based concurrency control, extended transaction models (UMass)
  • Epsilon-serializability (Oregon GI)
  • Commit protocols (Pittsburgh)
  • Nancy Lynch (MIT)
• Replication and consistency in distributed information systems
  • C3 (Stanford)
  • Globe (Vrije Universiteit)
  • Bayou (Xerox PARC)
  • Thor (MIT)
  • Beyond Browsers (Texas)
  • Vino (Harvard)
  • WisWeb (Wisconsin)
  • Coda (CMU)
• Distributed databases
  • Mariposa (Berkeley)
  • WANDS (Pittsburgh)
• Access methods: indexing and data layout
  • GiST (Berkeley)
  • Panda (Illinois)
  • Cubetree (Maryland)
  • DBLP index on access methods
• Multiresolution databases
  • MrSID (LANL)
• Multimedia databases
  • UC Irvine
  • Maryland
  • SUNY Buffalo
  • Pittsburgh
  • Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
  • University of Alberta, RIMS University of Twente
  • Garlic (IBM Almaden), Other projects at IBM Almaden
  • Infomedia (CMU)
  • Stanford Digital Libraries Project
  • Digital Libraries at Xerox PARC
  • Digital Library Technology (NASA)
  • Fellini (Ball Labs)
  • CBAM (MCC)
  • LSDIS (Georgia)
  • USC
  • Case Western Reserve
• Spatial databases
  • BigSur (Berkeley)
  • EOSDIS (NASA)
  • Paradise (Wisconsin)
  • Waterloo
  • Minnesota
  • Maine
  • Indiana
  • Keele
• Temporal databases
  • TimeCenter (Aalborg University, Denmark)
  • TimeLab (UMIST, UK)
  • George Mason
  • CSITE-CNR (Italy)
  • Arizona
  • UC Davis
• Persistent stores
  • St. Andrews
  • EREQ (Oregon GI)
• Interoperability and Web-database interfaces
  • Tukwila (Washington)
  • WebSQL (Toronto)
  • Maryland
  • UPenn

Database Research Groups: Universities

• Aalborg University
• Carnegie Mellon University
• Case Western Reserve University
• Columbia University
• Cornell University
• Edinburgh University
• ETH Zurich
• Georgia Institute of Technology
• Heriot-Watt University
• Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
• Indiana University
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology
• Politecnico di Milano
• Stanford University
• University of Alberta
• University of Arizona
• University of California, Berkeley
• University of California, Davis
• University of California, Irvine
• University of California, San Diego
• University of Colorado at Boulder
• University of Geneva
• University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
• University of Maryland
• University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• University of Minnesota
• University of Pennsylvania
• University of Pittsburgh
• University of Rostock
• University of Toronto
• University of Twente
• University of Virginia
• University of Washington
• University of Waterloo
• University of Wisconsin-Madison

Database Research Groups: Industry & Government

• IBM Almaden
• Lucent (Bell Laboratories)
  • Database Principles Research Department
  • Database Systems Research Department
• MCC
• Microsoft

• INRIA
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Los Alamos National Laboratory

Database Textbooks

• Philip A. Bernstein, Vassos Hadzilacos and Nathan Goodman,
  Concurrency Control and Recovery in Database Systems, 1987.
  [electronic copy @ Microsoft Research] [Amazon]
• Jeffrey D. Ullman,
  Principles of Database & Knowledge-Base Systems, Vol. 1, 1988.
  [Amazon]
• Jeffrey D. Ullman,
  Principles of Database and Knowledge-Base Systems: The New Technologies, 1989.
  [Amazon]
• Stanley B. Zdonik, David Maier and Alan R. Simon,
  Readings in Object Oriented Database Systems, 1990.
  [Morgan Kaufmann] [Amazon]
• Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, ed.,
  Database Transaction Models for Advanced Applications, 1992.
  [Morgan Kaufmann] [Amazon]
• Jim Gray and Andreas Reuter,
  Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques, 1993.
  [Morgan Kaufmann] [Amazon]
• Setrag Khoshafian,
  Object-Oriented Databases, 1993.
  [John Wiley] [Amazon]
• Nancy Lynch, Michael Merritt, William E. Weihl and Alan Fekete,
  Atomic Transactions: In Concurrent and Distributed Systems, 1993.
  [Morgan Kaufmann] [Amazon]
• Sape Mullender, ed.,
  Distributed Systems, 1993.
  [Addison Wesley Longman] [ACM Press] [Amazon]
• M. Tamer Ozsu, Umeshwar Dayal and Patrick Valduriez,
  Distributed Object Management, 1993.
  [Morgan Kaufmann] [Amazon]
• Setrag Khoshafian and A. Brad Baker,
  Multimedia and Imaging Databases, 1996.
  [Morgan Kaufmann] [Amazon]
• Nancy Lynch,
  Distributed Algorithms, 1996.
  [Author @ MIT] [Morgan Kaufmann] [Amazon]
• Raghu Ramakrishnan,
  Database Management Systems, 1997.
  [Author @ Wisconsin] [McGraw-Hill] [Amazon]
• Jeffrey D. Ullman and Jennifer Widom,
  A First Course in Database Systems, 1997.
  [Prentice Hall] [Amazon]
• Carlo Zaniolo, Stefano Ceri, Christos Faloutsos, Richard T. Snodgrass, V.S. Subrahmanian and Roberto Zicari,
  Advanced Database Systems, 1997.
  [Morgan Kaufmann] [Amazon]
• Abraham Silberschatz, Henry Korth and S. Sudarshan,
  Database Systems Concepts, 1998.
  [Author @ Bell Labs] [McGraw-Hill] [Amazon]
• Michael Stonebraker and Joseph L. Hellerstein,
  Readings in Database Systems, 1998.
  [Morgan Kaufmann] [Amazon]
• Michael Stonebraker and Dorothy Moore,
  Object-Relational DBMSs: The Next Great Wave, 1998.
  [Morgan Kaufmann] [Amazon]
• V. S. Subrahmanian,
  Principles of Multimedia Database Systems, 1998.
  [Morgan Kaufmann] [Amazon]

Documentation and FAQs

• RFCs and FAQs (faqs.org)
• Usenet FAQs (Ohio State)
• SQL
  • SQL Standards (JCC Consulting)
  • SQL Standards (NIST)
  • SQL Reference Page (CMU)
  • SQL FAQ (Berkeley)
• Oracle FAQ
• Sybase FAQ
• Scientific and spatial data formats
  • HDF (NCSA)
  • NetCDF (Unidata)
  • NetCDF User's Guide (USDA)
  • SAIF (Province of British Columbia)
  • SDTS (NIST)
• Federal Information Processing Standards (NIST)
• CORBA
  • CORBA (OMG)
  • CORBA resources (Technical University of Vienna)
  • CORBA FAQ
• XML (W3)
• XML FAQ
• DCE (Open Group)
• DCE vs CORBA (Mitre)

Miscellany

• IBM Data Management White Papers
• Other database resource indices
  • Berkeley
  • UMass
  • LBNL
  • CWI (Netherlands)
  • JCC Consulting
  • ACM SIGMOD's Information on Database Research Groups and Projects
• Another Oracle FAQ

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