In the last decade, spatio-temporal database research focuses on the design of effective and efficient indexing structures in support of location-based queries such as predictive...
Due to their numerous benefits, relational systems play a major role in storing XML documents. XML also benefits relational systems by providing a means to publish legacy relatio...
In recentyears,databaseresearchandproduct developmentactivities havefocusedonsupport for non-traditional data types, such astext or multi-media documents.This paper describes an a...
This paper focuses on parallel query optimization. We consider the operator problem and introduce a new class of execution strategies called Linear-Oriented Bushy Trees (LBTs). Co...
Well-designed indices can dramatically improve query performance. Including query workload information can produce indices that yield better overall throughput while balancing the...