Abstract. Estimating the sizes of query results, and intermediate results, is crucial to many aspects of query processing. In particular, it is necessary for effective query optimi...
In this paper, we describe the TIMBER XML database system implemented at University of Michigan. TIMBER was one of the first native XML database systems, designed from the ground ...
With the growing importance of semi-structure data in information exchange, much research has been done to provide an effective mechanism to match a twig query in an XML database....
Supporting top-k queries over distributed collections of schemaless XML data poses two challenges. While XML supports expressive query languages such as XPath and XQuery, these la...
The first international workshop on Updates in XML [1] was held in conjunction with the EDBT/ICDT conference in Lausanne (Switzerland) on March 22, 2010, and attracted approximat...
Michael Benedikt, Daniela Florescu, Philippa Gardn...