SQL tuning--the attempt to improve a poorly-performing execution plan produced by the database query optimizer-is a critical aspect of database performance tuning. Ironically, as ...
There are principal differences between the relational model and XML's tree model. This causes problems in all cases where information from these two worlds has to be brought...
In-memory tree structured index search is a fundamental database operation. Modern processors provide tremendous computing power by integrating multiple cores, each with wide vect...
Changkyu Kim, Jatin Chhugani, Nadathur Satish, Eri...
Emerging database application domains demand not only new functionality but also high performance. To satisfy these two requirements, the Volcano project provides efficient, exten...
We present a description of three different algorithms that use background knowledge to improve text classifiers. One uses the background knowledge as an index into the set of tra...