Nowadays XML is universally accepted as the standard for structural data representation; XML databases, providing structural querying support, are thus becoming more and more popul...
Virtually all proposals for querying XML include a class of query we term "containment queries". It is also clear that in the foreseeable future, a substantial amount of...
Chun Zhang, Jeffrey F. Naughton, David J. DeWitt, ...
An Event-Join combinestemporaljoin and outerjoin properties into a single operation. It is mostly used to group temporal attributes of an entity into a single relation. In this pa...
Time is one of the most difficult aspects to handle in real world applications such as database systems. Relational database management systems proposed by Codd offer very little ...
Systems designed for efficient retrieval of conventional data can be very inefficient at retrieving documents. Documents have more complex structure than conventional data, and th...