This paper evaluates the performance of the parallel, main-memory DBMS, PRISMA/DB. First, an architecture for parallel query execution is presented. A performance model for the ex...
Annita N. Wilschut, Jan Flokstra, Peter M. G. Aper...
The specification of schema mappings has proved to be time and resource consuming, and has been recognized as a critical bottleneck to the large scale deployment of data integrati...
Khalid Belhajjame, Norman W. Paton, Suzanne M. Emb...
Abstract. In knowledge bases, the open world assumption and the ability to express variables may lead to an answer redundancy problem. This problem occurs when the returned answers...
: Skyline Queries have recently received a lot of attention due to their intuitive query capabilities. Following the concept of Pareto optimality all `best' database objects a...
: Cost-based optimizers in relational databases make use of data statistics to estimate intermediate result cardinalities. Those cardinalities are needed to estimate access plan co...