XML support is being added to existing database management systems (DBMSs) and native XML systems are being developed both in industry and in academia. The individual performance ...
It is common to find that the definition or common usage of a data modelling language causes there to be restrictions placed on the evolution of data values that are associated wit...
Abstract. Many problems in Information and Data Management require a semantic account of a database schema. At its best, such an account consists of formulas expressing the relatio...
Traditional database query formulation is intensional: at the level of schemas, table and column names. Previous work has shown that filters can be created using a query paradigm ...
Two trends are converging to make the CPU cost of a table scan a more important component of database performance. First, table scans are becoming a larger fraction of the query p...
Allison L. Holloway, Vijayshankar Raman, Garret Sw...