— Most biomedical research databases contain considerable amounts of time-oriented data. However, temporal knowledge about the contextual meaning of such data is not usually repr...
Oracle XML DB integrates XML storage and querying using the Oracle relational and object relational framework. It has the capability to physically store XML documents by shredding...
As more and more query processing work can be done in main memory, memory access is becoming a significant cost component of database operations. Recent database research has show...
Web search engines often federate many user queries to relevant structured databases. For example, a product related query might be federated to a product database containing thei...
Transparent persistence promises to integrate programming languages and databases by allowing procedural programs to access persistent data with the same ease as non-persistent da...