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. Language: English