ACIDRain: Concurrency-related attacks on database-backed web applications Warszawski & Bailis, SIGMOD'17 Welcome back to a new term of The Morning Paper. To kick things off, we have 'ACID Rain' - a terrific paper from SIGMOD'17 that pulls together a number of threads we've studied previously: transaction processing, anomalies, and security. What ACIDRain demonstrates is that … Continue reading ACIDRain: concurrency-related attacks on database backed web applications
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Venture Partner with Accel in London, author of 'The Morning Paper'
End of term, and Orders of Magnitude
It's end of term time again. As part of making The Morning Paper habit sustainable I take a few weeks off three times a year to do some more relaxed background reading, recharge my paper queues, and let my mind wander. The Morning Paper will return on Monday 7th August. Here are a few selections … Continue reading End of term, and Orders of Magnitude
Do we need specialized graph databases? Benchmarking real-time social networking applications
Do we need specialized graph databases? Benchmarking real-time social networking applications Pacaci et al., GRADES'17 Today's paper comes from the GRADES workshop co-located with SIGMOD. The authors take an established graph data management system benchmark suite (LDBC) and run it across a variety of graph and relational stores. The findings make for very interesting reading, … Continue reading Do we need specialized graph databases? Benchmarking real-time social networking applications
Using word embedding to enable semantic queries on relational databases
Using word embedding to enable semantic queries in relational databases Bordawekar and Shmeuli, DEEM'17 As I'm sure some of you have figured out, I've started to work through a collection of papers from SIGMOD'17. Strictly speaking, this paper comes from the DEEM workshop held in conjunction with SIGMOD, but it sparked my imagination and I … Continue reading Using word embedding to enable semantic queries on relational databases
Blockbench: a framework for analyzing private blockchains
Blockbench: a framework for analyzing private blockchains Dinh et al., SIGMOD'17 Here's a paper which delivers way more than you might expect from the title alone. First we get a good discussion of private blockchains and why interest in them is growing rapidly. Then the authors analyse the core layers in a private blockchain, and … Continue reading Blockbench: a framework for analyzing private blockchains
Azure Data Lake Store: a hyperscale distributed file service for big data analytics
Azure data lake store: a hyperscale distributed file service for big data analytics Douceur et al., SIGMOD'17 Today's paper takes us inside Microsoft Azure's distributed file service called the Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS). ADLS is the successor to an internal file system called Cosmos, and marries Cosmos semantics with HDFS, supporting both Cosmos and … Continue reading Azure Data Lake Store: a hyperscale distributed file service for big data analytics
Spanner: becoming a SQL system
Spanner: becoming a SQL system Bacon et al., SIGMOD'17 This week we'll start digging into some of the papers from SIGMOD'17. First up is a terrific 'update' paper on Google's Spanner which brings the story up to date in the five years since the original OSDI'12 paper. ... in many ways, today's Spanner is very … Continue reading Spanner: becoming a SQL system
Dhalion: self-regulating stream processing in Heron
Dhalion: Self-regulating stream processing in Heron Floratou et al., VLDB 2017 Dhalion follows on nicely from yesterday's paper looking at the modular architecture of Heron, and aims to reduce the "complexity of configuring, managing, and deploying" streaming applications. In particular, streaming applications deployed as Heron topologies, although the authors are keen to point out the … Continue reading Dhalion: self-regulating stream processing in Heron
Twitter Heron: towards extensible streaming engines
Twitter Heron: Towards extensible streaming engines Fu et al., ICDE 2017 We previously looked at the initial Twitter Heron paper that announced Heron to the world. In this ICDE 2017 paper, the team give us an update based on the work done since as a result of open-sourcing Heron. ... we discuss the challenges we … Continue reading Twitter Heron: towards extensible streaming engines
An experimental security analysis of an industrial robot controller
An experimental security analysis of an industrial robot controller Quarta et al., IEEE Security and Privacy 2017 This is an industrial robot: The International Federation of Robotics forecasts that, by 2018, approximately 1.3 million industrial robot units will be employed in factories globally, and the international market value for "robotized" systems is approximately 32 billion … Continue reading An experimental security analysis of an industrial robot controller
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