To Zagros, my lovely husband, For his unending love and sacrifices. To Mohsen, my dear brother, Who always besides me. To you, as a reader…. This work would not have been completed without the help and support of many kind people around me, to only some of whom it is possible to give particular mention here. First and foremost, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to my thesis directors...

Traditional database management systems approach to data analytics assumes that the input would be loaded within the DBMS, and then queried upon. However, data analytics depend on the interaction with the data analyst and as data collections grow larger and larger, data loading acts as a bottleneck and it incurs significant data-to-query delay. In this paper, we examine the NoDB paradigm, which...