Description: 1 Introduction.- 1.1 Background and Motivation.- 1.2 Overview.- 1.3 Organization.- 2 Client-Server Database Systems.- 2.1 Architectural Alternatives.- 2.2 Reference Architecture.- 2.3 Utilizing Client Resources.- 2.4 Related Systems.- 3 Modeling a Page Server DBMS.- 3.1 Model Overview.- 3.2 Client-Server Execution Model.- 3.3 Database and Physical Resource Model.- 3.4 Workload Models.- 3.5 Experimental Methodology.- 4 Client Cache Consistency.- 4.1 The Consistency Maintenance Problem.- 4.2 A Taxonomy of Consistency Protocols.- 4.3 Cache Consistency Maintenance Algorithms.- 5 Performance of Cache Consistency Algorithms.- 5.1 System Configuration and Workloads.- 5.2 Server-based 2PL and Optimistic 2PL.- 5.3 Callback Locking.- 5.4 Related Work.- 5.5 Chapter Summary.- 6 Global Memory Management.- 6.1 Introduction.- 6.2 Algorithms for Global Memory Management.- 6.3 Experiments and Results.- 6.4 Related Work.- 6.5 Chapter Summary.- 7 Local Disk Caching.- 7.1 Utilizing Client Disks.- 7.2 Designing an Extended Cache.- 7.3 Extended Cache Performance.- 7.4 Algorithm Extensions.- 7.5 Chapter Summary.- 8 Towards a Flexible Distributed DBMS Architecture.- 8.1 Data Granularity.- 8.2 Peer-to-Peer Architecture.- 8.3 Integrating Data-shipping and Query-shipping.- 9 Conclusions.- 9.1 Summary of Results.- 9.2 Future Work.- References.

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