We study the problem of answering queries posed on virtual views of XML documents, a problem commonly encountered when enforcing XML access control and integrating data. We approa...
It has long been recognized that multi-stream operators, such as union and join, often have to wait idly in a temporarily blocked state, as a result of skews between the timestamp...
Yijian Bai, Hetal Thakkar, Haixun Wang, Carlo Zani...
Google and other products have revolutionized the way we search for information on the Internet, Intranet, and on our desktop. However, the current generation of search products d...
Persistence is a common requirement in many applications. In existing systems, persistence is added to an application at either compile or deployment time by using a variety of me...
Estimating the selectivity of queries is a crucial problem in database systems. Virtually all database systems rely on the use of selectivity estimates to choose amongst the many ...