We give an overview on how XQuery processing works in our native XML database system Natix. After a brief description of the query compiler we focus on the aspect of join ordering...
Norman May, Sven Helmer, Carl-Christian Kanne, Gui...
In spite of the many decades of progress in database research, surprisingly scientists in the life sciences community still struggle with inefficient and awkward tools for queryin...
Optimization of join queries based on average selectivities is suboptimal in highly correlated databases. In such databases, relations are naturally divided into partitions, each ...
Kostas Tzoumas, Amol Deshpande, Christian S. Jense...
The envisioned Semantic Web aims to provide richly annotated and explicitly structured Web pages in XML, RDF, or description logics, based upon underlying ontologies and thesauri. ...
Gerhard Weikum, Jens Graupmann, Ralf Schenkel, Mar...
To globally optimize execution plans for XQuery expressions, a plan generator must generate and compare plan alternatives. In proven compiler architectures, the unit of plan genera...