Searching for similar objects in metric-space databases can be efficiently solved by using index data structures. A number of alternative sequential indexes have been proposed in...
The rapidly increasing number of XML-related applications indicates a growing need for efficient, dynamic, and native XML support in database management systems (XDBMS). So far, bo...
In this paper, we propose SPRITE (Selective PRogressive Index Tuning by Examples), a scalable system for text retrieval in a structured P2P network. Under SPRITE, each peer is res...
XML query processing is one of the most active areas of database research. Although the main focus of past research has been the processing of structural XML queries, there are gro...
The major relational database systems have been providing XML support for several years, predominantly by mapping XML to existing concepts such as LOBs or (object-)relational tabl...