Random sampling is an appealing approach to build synopses of large data streams because random samples can be used for a broad spectrum of analytical tasks. Users are often inter...
There has been a significant amount of excitement and recent work on column-oriented database systems ("column-stores"). These database systems have been shown to perfor...
This paper investigates a class of transform queries proposed by XQuery Update [6]. A transform query is defined in terms of XML update syntax. When posed on an XML tree T, it ret...
Suppose a long-running analytical query is executing on a database server and has been allocated a large amount of physical memory. A high-priority task comes in and we need to ru...
Badrish Chandramouli, Christopher N. Bond, Shivnat...
Current application development tools provide completely different programming models for the application server (e.g., Java and J2EE) and the client web browser (e.g., JavaScript...
Nicholas Gerner, Fan Yang 0002, Alan J. Demers, Jo...