To effectively support today's global economy, database systems need to store and manipulate text data in multiple languages simultaneously. Current database systems do suppor...
The JavaTM programming language does not allow the programmer to influence memory management. An object is usually allocated on the heap and deallocated by the garbage collector ...
Virtually all proposals for querying XML include a class of query we term "containment queries". It is also clear that in the foreseeable future, a substantial amount of...
Chun Zhang, Jeffrey F. Naughton, David J. DeWitt, ...
Supporting legacy applications when the database schema evolves represents a long-standing challenge of practical and theoretical importance. Recent work has produced algorithms a...
Carlo Curino, Hyun Jin Moon, Alin Deutsch, Carlo Z...
Existing virtual memory systems usually work well with applications written in C and C++, but they do not provide adequate support for garbage-collected applications. The performa...
Ting Yang, Emery D. Berger, Scott F. Kaplan, J. El...