Very Large Database Systems, Zurich, Switzerland, September 1995. One of the biggest challenges is designing and implementing update protocols that scale to networks of this size. My thesis work is to design and implement a protocol that has better performance characteristics for this type of environment. Management of Data, Montreal, Canada, June 1996. The Mariposa distributed database management system is an ongoing research project here at UC Berkeley.
Data fragmentation can potentially increase parallelism during query execution.
A Mariposa site can pay other sites to perform work or to sell it copies of data and can charge other sites for the same services. Version 1.0 of Mariposa was released in June 1996. Ports to Sun's Solaris and Microsoft Windows NT are expected before 1997.