Format

A paper review should summarize concisely the main contributions of the paper. It should also identify the limitations of the paper if any. Please feel free to include discussion questions (perhaps on something that you found confusing about the strategies or assumptions of the paper).

Submission

Please email paper reviews to both the instructor and the TA by midnight before each class. Send reviews in the body of the message. Do not send them as attachments. Again, late submissions will only be accepted under limited conditions.

Paper 1 (due Feb 15)

Hong-Tai Chou and J. DeWitt David. "An evaluation of buffer management strategies for relational database systems". VLDB 1985: 127-141.

Paper 2 (due Feb 22)

Norbert Beckmann, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Ralf Schneider, and Bernhard Seeger. "The R*-Tree: An Efficient and Robust Access Method for Points and Rectangles". Proc. SIGMOD Conference, 1990, 322-331.

Paper 3 (due Mar 8)

Patricia G. Selinger, Morton M. Astrahan, Donald D. Chamberlin, Raymond A. Lorie, Thomas G. Price. "Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System". SIGMOD Conference 1979: 23-34

Paper 4 (due Mar 27)

Jim Gray, Raymond A. Lorie, Gianfranco R. Putzolu, and Irving L. Traiger. "Granularity of Locks and Degrees of Consistency in a Shared Data Base". IBM, September, 1975.

Paper 5 (due Apr 24)

Roy Goldman and Jennifer Widom. "DataGuides: Enabling Query Formulation and Optimization in Semistructured Databases". Proc. VLDB, 1997, 436-445.