We report on the second annual ACM SIGMOD programming contest, which consisted in building an efficient distributed query engine on top of an in-memory index. This article is co-a...
Databases are continuously evolving environments, where design constructs are added, removed or updated rather often. Small changes in the database configurations might impact a l...
George Papastefanatos, Fotini Anagnostou, Yannis V...
Similarity search in time series databases usually deals with comparing entire time series objects or subsequence search. In this paper, we formalize the notion of interval-focused...
Abstract. The problem of storing and querying XML data using relational databases has been considered a lot and many techniques have been developed. MXML is an extension of XML sui...
A join index hierarchy method is proposed to handle the "goto's on disk" problem in objectoriented query processing. The method constructs a hierarchy of join indic...