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The Next Challenge for Database Systems: to Satisfy Users
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ISSN: 0018-9162
Rogerio Costa, University of Coimbra, Coimbra
Pedro Furtado, Univ. Coimbra Univeristy of Coimbra, Coimbra
Database management systems are designed to handle large amounts of data as efficiently as possible. This means that every request and every piece of data is treated in the same best-effort manner, regardless of user expectations. Yet, the last few years have seen a consistent drive towards designing software (and hardware) that focuses on providing high Quality of Experience (QoE) to users. The focus is shifted from blind performance optimization into optimizing user satisfaction. This led to important changes in many areas of the software development industry. In this paper, we discuss how to provide high levels of QoE to database users. We present how to provide QoE by considering user-defined requirements. We describe the main types of execution-related requirements and present how to measure the QoE level the system provides. Experimental results obtained over two widely adopted DBMS (Oracle 11g and SQL Server 2008) prove the usefulness of proposed strategies.
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Rogerio Costa, Pedro Furtado, "The Next Challenge for Database Systems: to Satisfy Users," Computer, 04 Dec. 2012. IEEE computer Society Digital Library. IEEE Computer Society, <http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MC.2012.425>
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