The skyline query, as an important operator in databases for multi-preference analysis and decision making, has received much attention recently due to its wide application backgr...
Physical structures, for example indexes and materialized views, can improve query execution performance by orders of magnitude. Hence, it is important to choose the right configu...
Iman Elghandour, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Daniel C. Zilio...
There has been a significant amount of excitement and recent work on column-oriented database systems ("column-stores"). These database systems have been shown to perfor...
There has been considerable work on automated physical design tuning for database systems. Existing solutions require offline invocations of the tuning tool and depend on DBAs ide...
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...