: Due to the high complexity of objects and queries and also due to extremely large data volumes, geographic database systems impose stringent requirements on their storage and acc...
Thomas Brinkhoff, Holger Horn, Hans-Peter Kriegel,...
Background: In the last five years large online resources of human variability have appeared, notably HapMap, Perlegen and the CEPH foundation. These databases of genotypes with p...
Jorge Amigo, Antonio Salas, Christopher Phillips, ...
XML documents are frequently used in applications such as business transactions and medical records involving sensitive information. Typically, parts of documents should be visibl...
Naizhen Qi, Michiharu Kudo, Jussi Myllymaki, Hamid...
A common problem within most large corporations nowadays is the diversity of database systems that are employed by their many departments in the development of a product. Usually, ...
Fernando de Ferreira Rezende, Ulrich Hermsen, Geor...
Most database query optimizers use cost models to identify good query execution plans. Inaccuracies in the cost models can cause query optimizers to select poor plans. In this pap...