In the last few years, XML became a de-facto standard for the exchange of structured and semi-structured data. The database research community took this development into account b...
Supporting queries and modifications on XML documents is a challenging task, and several related approaches exist. When implementing query and modification languages efficientl...
This paper introduces RankSQL, a system that provides a systematic and principled framework to support efficient evaluations of ranking (top-k) queries in relational database syst...
Chengkai Li, Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang, Ihab F. Ilyas...
Systems designed for efficient retrieval of conventional data can be very inefficient at retrieving documents. Documents have more complex structure than conventional data, and th...
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...