Queries with (equality or LIKE) selection predicates over string attributes are widely used in relational databases. However, state-of-the-art techniques for estimating selectivit...
The XQuery formalization is an ongoing effort of the W3C XML Query working group to define a precise formal semantics for XQuery. This paper briefly introduces the current state o...
We give an overview on how XQuery processing works in our native XML database system Natix. After a brief description of the query compiler we focus on the aspect of join ordering...
Norman May, Sven Helmer, Carl-Christian Kanne, Gui...
We consider IES(SQL), the incremental evaluation system over an SQL-like language with grouping, arithmetics, and aggregation. We show that every second order query is in IES(SQL) ...
We demonstrate MMS, a system for storing and managing a variety of metadata in a simple, elegant and uniform way. The system is based on two observations. First, that the relation...