PAPERS LIST

Except where noted otherwise, the readings are drawn from
Stonebraker and Hellerstein's book (Readings in Database Systems.)  
Note that the page numbers below may no longer be accurate, due to 
a recent revision of that book.

CONCURRENCY CONTROL


Gray, J., et al., "Granularity of Locks and Degrees of Consistency in a Shared
Database." Here an <A HREF="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~cs764-1/Granularity of Locks.pdf"> online copy.</A>


Kung, H., and J. Robinson, "On Optimistic Methods for Concurrency
Control", page 194.


Lehman and Yao, "Efficient Locking for Concurrent Operations in B-trees",
page 224.


CRASH RECOVERY


Mohan et al., "ARIES: A Transaction Recovery Method Supporting
Fine-Granularity Locking and Partial Rollbacks Using Write-Ahead
Logging", page 251.

C. Mohan, B. Lindsay, and R. Obermarck, "Transaction Management in
the R* Distributed Database Management System", page 362.

XML, XML query languages:

Chamberlin et al., "Quilt: An XML Query Language for Heterogeneous
Data Sources", at 

     http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/people/chamberlin/quilt_lncs.pdf

If you don't know anything about XML you might look at

   http://www.xml.com/pub/a/98/10/guide0.html

first.


QUERY PROCESSING AND OPTIMIZATION


Shapiro, L. D., "Join Processing in Database Systems with Large Main Memories",
page 128.


Selinger, P., et al., "Access Path Selection in a Relational Database
Management System", page 141.


ADVANCED ACCESS METHODS


Guttman, A., "R-Trees: A Dynamic Index Structure for Spatial Searching",
page 90.


BUFFER MANAGEMENT


Chou, H., and D. DeWitt, "An Evaluation of Buffer Management Strategies
for Relational Database Systems", page 113.



DISTRIBUTED AND PARALLEL DATABASE SYSTEMS


DeWitt, D. and J. Gray, "Parallel Database Systems: The Future of High
Performance Database Systems", pp. 403 - 417.  


Gray et al., "The Dangers of Replication and a Solution", page 372.


Stonebraker et al., "Mariposa: A Wide-Area Distributed Database", page 382.

XQUERY/XML:

see powerpoint presentation hanging off of cs764 home page

OODBMS:


Lamb et al., "The ObjectStore System", page 467.

Carey et al., "The OO7 Benchmark", page 622.

ORBMS:

Carey et al., "The BUCKY Benchmark". (available at 
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~naughton/bucky.html - you want the "report".)