: This paper ANDROMEDA, an astronomical data mediation system that enables transparent access to astronomical data servers. Transparent access is achieved by a global view that exp...
The REpresentational State Transfer (REST) represents an extensible, easy and elegant architecture for accessing web-based resources. REST alone and in combination with XML is fast...
Sebastian Graf, Lukas Lewandowski, Marcel Waldvoge...
This paper presents a query optimizer module based on cost estimation that chooses the best filtering step algorithm to perform a specific spatial join operation. A set of express...
Metric access methods (MAMs) serve as a tool for speeding similarity queries. However, all MAMs developed so far are index-based; they need to build an index on a given database. T...
The object identifier index of an object-oriented database system is typically 20% of the size of the database itself, and for large databases, only a small part of the index fits...