Index is an important element in databases, and the existence of index is unavoidable. When an index has been built on a particular attribute, database operations (e.g. selection,...
—We present a new access method, called the path dictionary index (PDI) method, for supporting nested queries on object-oriented databases. PDI supports object traversal and asso...
Stream applications gained significant popularity over the last years that lead to the development of specialized stream engines. These systems are designed from scratch with a di...
: Due to the high complexity of objects and queries and also due to extremely large data volumes, geographic database systems impose stringent requirements on their storage and acc...
Thomas Brinkhoff, Holger Horn, Hans-Peter Kriegel,...
With the increasing occurrence of temporal and spatial data in present-day database applications, the interval data type is adopted by more and more database systems. For an effic...