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VLDB
1997
ACM
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13 years 9 months ago
DataGuides: Enabling Query Formulation and Optimization in Semistructured Databases
In semistructured databases there is no schema fixed in advance. To provide the benefits of a schema in such environments, we introduce DataGuides: concise and accurate structural...
Roy Goldman, Jennifer Widom
FOIKS
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Query Answering and Containment for Regular Path Queries under Distortions
Abstract. We give a general framework for approximate query processing in semistructured databases. We focus on regular path queries, which are the integral part of most of the que...
Gösta Grahne, Alex Thomo
AVI
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Query-through-drilldown: data-oriented extensional queries
Traditional database query formulation is intensional: at the level of schemas, table and column names. Previous work has shown that filters can be created using a query paradigm ...
Alan J. Dix, Damon Oram
SYRCODIS
2008
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13 years 6 months ago
Towards Cost-based Query Optimization in Native XML Database Management Systems
In the last few years, XML became a de-facto standard for the exchange of structured and semi-structured data. The database research community took this development into account b...
Andreas M. Weiner, Christian Mathis, Theo Här...
ICDE
2007
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
An Integer Linear Programming Approach to Database Design
Existing index selection tools rely on heuristics to efficiently search within the large space of alternative solutions and to minimize the overhead of using the query optimizer ...
Stratos Papadomanolakis, Anastassia Ailamaki