The query optimizer of a database system is confronted with two aspects when handling user-defined functions (UDFs) in query predicates: the vast differences in evaluation costs b...
Efficiently and accurately searching for similarities among time series and discovering interesting patterns is an important and non-trivial problem. In this paper, we introduce a...
OLTP and transactional workloads are increasingly common in computer systems, ranging from ecommerce to warehousing to inventory management. It is valuable to provide priority sch...
David T. McWherter, Bianca Schroeder, Anastassia A...
A popular architecture for enterprise applications is one of a stateless object-based server accessing persistent data through Object-Relational mapping software. The reported ben...
The ability to compute top-k matches to XML queries is gaining importance due to the increasing number of large XML repositories. The efficiency of top-k query evaluation relies o...