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\title{Database 2 - Optional Paper Presentation}
\author{Andrea Gussoni}
\institute{Politecnico di Milano}
\date{July 15, 2016}
 
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\section{Introduction}

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\item \textbf{Title:} Coordination Avoidance in Database Systems.
\item \textbf{Authors:} Peter Bailis, Alan Fekete, Michael J. Franklin, Ali Ghodsi, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Ion Stoica.
\item Presented at \textbf{2015 VLDB}.
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\item \textbf{Title:} Trekking Through Siberia: Managing Cold Data in a Memory-Optimized Database.
\item \textbf{Authors:} Ahmed Eldawy, Justin Levandoski, Per-Ake Larson.
\item Presented at \textbf{2014 VLDB}.
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\section{First Paper}

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Coordination Avoidance in Database System
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