Based on loosely coupled services in an XML engine, we describe how to realize fine-grained lock protocols, which can guarantee transaction isolation for applications using differ...
The MPEG-7 standard provides description mechanisms and taxonomy management for multimedia documents. There are several approaches to design a multimedia database system using MPE...
Several mapping schemes have recently been proposed to store XML data in relational tables. Relational database systems are readily available and can handle vast amounts of data v...
XML data warehouses form an interesting basis for decision-support applications that exploit complex data. However, native XML database management systems currently bear limited p...
We discuss four different core protocols for synchronizing access to and modifications of XML document collections. These core protocols synchronize structure traversals and modif...
Sven Helmer, Carl-Christian Kanne, Guido Moerkotte