Semi-join reducers were introduced in the late seventies as a means to reduce the communication costs of distributed database systems. Subsequent work in the eighties showed, howe...
Konrad Stocker, Donald Kossmann, Reinhard Braumand...
BioMediator is a data integration system that provides a common interface to multiple Internet-accessible databases containing information about genetics and molecular biology. Ont...
This paper introduces Clustera, an integrated computation and data management system. In contrast to traditional clustermanagement systems that target specific types of workloads,...
David J. DeWitt, Erik Paulson, Eric Robinson, Jeff...
In this paper we describe a query paradigm based on ontologies, aggregate table-driven querying and expansion of QBE. It has two novel features: visually specifying aggregate table...
Execution plans produced by traditional query optimizers for data integration queries may yield poor performance for several reasons. The cost estimates may be inaccurate, the mem...