Author: Roberto Zicari
XML Database Benchmark: “Transaction Processing over XML (TPoX)
TPoX is an application-level XML database benchmark based on a financial application scenario. It is used to evaluate the performance of XML database systems, focusing on XQuery, SQL/XML, XML Storage, XML Indexing, XML Schema...
Open Source Database Benchmark Project (OSDB)
The OSDB project`s aim is to define an object-oriented, database-independent, and system-independent benchmark to enable individuals to analyze the performance of a variety of database and system configurations. The MySQL DBMS plugin is available....
Foundation of Object-Oriented Programming – A Full Day Tutorial
Giuseppe Castagna, Ecole Normale Superieure Provides the theoretical background needed to study foundation of object-oriented programming and gives a unified presentation of several theoretical models of object-oriented languages. LINK
Object-Oriented Programming Concepts
Sun, The Java Tutorial A great tutorial to get acquainted with OOP. LINK
The Graph Traversal Pattern
Rodriguez, M.A., Neubauer, P., Graph Data Management: Techniques and Applications. Eds. S. Sakr, E. Pardede, IGI Global,December 2010. LINK (arXiv preprint)
TinkerPop
TinkerPop: an open-source graph software group, provide a stack of technologies (called the TinkerPop stack). The stack starts just above the database layer (just above the graph persistence layer) and connects to various graph...
Google Open Source Software
Google did open source some low-level pieces of software that are useful for building storage systems (among other things). Among these are: LevelDB: is a library that implements a fast persistent key-value store: LevelDB key/value store...
Analyzing Big Data With Twitter
A special UC Berkeley iSchool course. Link to course material, including video of the lectures
Linked Data: Evolving the Web into a Global Data Space
Tom Heath, Talis Christian Bizer, Freie Universität Berlin Synthesis Lectures on the Semantic Web: Theory and Technology Paperback: 9781608454303 eBook ISBN: 9781608454310 February 2011, 136 pages The World Wide Web has enabled the creation...