Commercial database systems expose query hints to address situations in which the optimizer chooses a poor plan for a given query. However, current query hints are not flexible eno...
Nicolas Bruno, Surajit Chaudhuri, Ravishankar Rama...
Rock art is an archaeological term for human-made markings on stone. It is believed that there are millions of petroglyphs in North America alone, and the study of this valued cul...
Eamonn J. Keogh, Qiang Zhu 0002, Sang-Hee Lee, Xia...
In this paper we present a new compression scheme for signature tree structures. Beyond the reduction of storage space, compression attains significant savings in terms of query pr...
Maria Kontaki, Yannis Manolopoulos, Alexandros Nan...
Content-based indexing and retrieval is gaining increasing interest in the medical domain with the growing size of medical image databases. We present here a Web-accessible retrie...
Zhiyun Xue, Sameer Antani, L. Rodney Long, George ...
B-trees have been ubiquitous in database management systems for several decades, and they serve in many other storage systems as well. Their basic structure and their basic operat...