As XML database sizes grow, the amount of space used for storing the data and auxiliary data structures becomes a major factor in query and update performance. This paper presents...
Vertical partitioning is a well-known technique for optimizing query performance in relational databases. An extreme form of this technique, which we call vectorization, is to sto...
Peter Buneman, Byron Choi, Wenfei Fan, Robert Hutc...
In this paper, we address the problem of database selection for XML document collections, that is, given a set of collections and a user query, how to rank the collections based o...
Abstract. The widespread deployment of inexpensive communications technology, computational resources in the networking infrastructure, and network-enabled end devices poses an int...
Todd D. Hodes, Steven E. Czerwinski, Ben Y. Zhao, ...