Results caching is an efficient technique for reducing the query processing load, hence it is commonly used in real search engines. This technique, however, bounds the maximum hit...
Search engines use inverted files as index data structures to speed up the solution of user queries. The index is distributed on a set of processors forming a cluster of computer...
This paper describes a directed query dissemination scheme, DirQ that routes queries to the appropriate source nodes based on both constant and dynamicvalued attributes such as se...
Supriyo Chatterjea, Simone De Luigi, Paul J. M. Ha...
Accessing data from numerous widely-distributed sources poses signi cant new challenges for query optimization and execution. Congestion and failures in the network can introduce ...
Laurent Amsaleg, Michael J. Franklin, Anthony Toma...
: Large scientific applications which rely on highly parallel computational analysis require highly parallel data access. We describe an object-oriented, scientific database system...
John L. Pfaltz, Russell F. Haddleton, James C. Fre...