This work describes a generic database service for the lightweight Venice Service Grid, which has been developed at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. By using Web service...
This paper proposes a family of replication protocols based on group communication in order to address some of the concerns expressed by database designers regarding existing repl...
Two new spatial join operations, distance join and distance semijoin, are introduced where the join output is ordered by the distance betweenthe spatialattribute values ofthe join...
This paper argues that most queries in object-oriented databases require traversing from one object to another in the aggregation hierarchy. Thus, the connections between objects ...
Security and privacy concerns as well as legal considerations force many companies to encrypt the sensitive data in databases. However, storing the data in an encrypted format enta...