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 ...
Unity is an architecture for integrating relational databases that performs three processes: metadata capture, semantic integration, and query formulation and execution. The found...
Complex and data-intensive database queries mandate parallel processing strategies to achieve sufficiently short response times. In praxis, parallel database processing is mostly b...
The basic relationships to be determined in XML query processing are ancestor-descendant (A-D), parent-child (P-C), sibling and ordering relationships. The containment labeling sc...
Whereas traditional databases manage only deterministic information, many applications that use databases involve uncertain data. This paper presents a Probabilistic Tree Data Bas...