Most operations of the relational algebra or SQL - like projection with duplicate elimination, join, ordering, group by and aggregations - are efficiently processed using a sorted...
Label stream partition is a useful technique to reduce the input I/O cost of holistic twig join by pruning useless streams beforehand. The Prefix Path Stream (PPS) partition scheme...
Sharing of common subtrees has been reported useful not only for XML compression but also for main-memory XML query processing. This method compresses subtrees only when they exhib...
In implementations of non-standard database systems, large objects are often embedded within an aggregate of different types, i.e. a tuple. For a given size and access probabilit...
Abstract. The Internet has instigated a critical need for automated tools that facilitate integrating countless databases. Since non-technical end users are often the ultimate repo...