| March 2015 | Vol. 38 No. 1 | 
  
IEEE Computer Society
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Letters | 
| Letter from the Editor-in-Chief | David Lomet | 1 | 
| Letter from the New TCDE Chair | Xiaofang Zhou | 2 | 
| Letter from the Special Issue Editor | Bettina Kemme | 3 | 
Special Issue on Data Consistency in the Cloud | 
| A Taxonomy of Partitioned Replicated Cloud-based Database Systems |   | 
| Divy Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi, Kenneth Salem | 4 | 
| FIT: A Distributed Database Performance Tradeoff | Jose M. Faleiro, Daniel J. Abadi | 10 | 
| On the use of Clocks to Enforce Consistency in the Cloud |   | 
| Manuel Bravo, Nuno Diegues, Jingna Zeng, Paolo Romano, Luís Rodrigues | 18 | 
| Scaling Optimistic Concurrency Control by Approximately Partitioning the Certifier and Log |   | 
| Philip A. Bernstein, Sudipto Das | 32 | 
| Transaction Processing Techniques for Modern Hardware and the Cloud |   | 
| Justin Levandoski, Sudipta Sengupta, Ryan Stutsman, Rui Wang | 50 | 
| Scaling Off-the-Shelf Databases with Vela: An approach based on Virtualization and Replication |   | 
| Tudor-Ioan Salomie, Gustavo Alonso | 58 | 
| CumuloNimbo: A Cloud Scalable Multi-tier SQL Database | Ricardo Jimenez-Peris, Marta Patiño-Martinez |   | 
| Bettina Kemme, Ivan Brondino, José Pereira, Ricardo Vilaça, Francisco Cruz, Rui Oliveira, Yousuf Ahmad | 73 | 
Announcements and Notices | 
| ICDE 2015 Conference | 84 | 
| TCDE Membership Form | backcover |