Expressing complex OLAP queries using group-by, aggregation, and joins can be extremely difficult. As a result of this, many alternate ways of expressing such queries have been de...
This paper describes an algebra for use with parallel object databases, and in particular ODMG compliant databases with OQL. Although there have been many proposals for parallel r...
Sandra de F. Mendes Sampaio, Norman W. Paton, Paul...
We explore the implications of supporting bags (i.e. multisets) in a data model and associated query language, and present some formal results concerned with the algebraic propert...
In existing relational database systems, processing of group-by and computation of aggregate functions are always postponed until all joins are performed. In this paper, we presen...
Conventional operators for data retrieval are either based on exact matching or on total order relationship among elements. Neither of them is appropriate to manage complex data, s...