To learn more about Mariposa, you can read the following papers:
Mariposa: A New Architecture for Distributed Data, Sequoia
2000 Technical Report 93/31, University of California, Berkeley, CA,
May 1993.
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Appeared in: Proceedings of 1994 IEEE
10th International Conference on Data Engineering,
Houston, TX, USA, 14-18 Feb. 1994. Los
Alamitos, CA, USA: IEEE Comput. Soc. Press, 1994. p. 54-65.
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An Economic Paradigm for Query Processing and Data Migration in
Mariposa,
Sequoia 2000 Technical Report 94/49,
University of California, Berkeley, CA, Apr. 1994.
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Appeared in: Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on
Parallel and Distributed Information Systems, Austin, TX, USA,
28-30 Sept. 1994. Los Alamitos, CA, USA: IEEE Comput. Soc. Press,
1994. p. 58-67.
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Data Replication in Mariposa, Sequoia 2000 Technical Report
95/62, University of California, Berkeley, CA, June 1995.
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Appeared in: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on
Data Engineering, New Orleans, LA, Feb. 1996.
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Mariposa: A Wide-Area Distributed Database System, Sequoia
2000 Technical Report 95/63, University of California, Berkeley, CA,
June 1995.
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Appeared in: VLDB Journal 5, 1 (Jan. 1996), p. 48-63.
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Recycling Secondary Index Structures, unpublished
manuscript, Mar. 1996.
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Earlier version available as Sequoia 2000 Technical Report 95/66,
University of California, Berkeley, CA, June 1995.
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Performance of Adaptive Query
Processing in the Mariposa Distributed Database Management
System, unpublished manuscript, June 1997.
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