Current object database management systems support user-defined conversion functions to update the database once the schema has been modified. Two main strategies are possible whe...
Abstract. Fine-grained lock protocols with lock modes and lock granules adjusted to the various XML processing models, allow for highly concurrent transaction processing on XML tre...
RDBMS's have evolved to an extent that they are used to manage almost all of traditional business data in a robust fashion. Nevertheless, a large fraction of unstructured and...
Data Stream Management Systems (DSMS) operate under strict performance requirements. Key to meeting such requirements is to efficiently handle time-critical tasks such as managing...
Irina Botan, Gustavo Alonso, Peter M. Fischer, Don...