Even though an effective cost-based query optimizer is of utmost importance for the efficient evaluation of XQuery expressions in native XML database systems, such a component is...
Due to the flexible structures of SQL, no general approach works efficiently for all kinds of queries. Some special kinds of queries can be further optimized for better performa...
Abstract. Many researchers have investigated the problem of storing and querying XML documents using an RDBMS. Two situations are considered in this approach based on whether or no...
Classical retrieval models support content-oriented searching for documents using a set of words as data model. However, in hypertext and database applications we want to consider...
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 ...