With an ever growing complexity and data volume, the administration of today's relational database management systems has become one of the most important cost factors in thei...
Many agile projects do not apply agile practices to their database development. Common wisdom dictates that the entire data model be carefully designed up front and protected from...
Bitmap indexes are widely used in Decision Support Systems (DSSs) to improve query performance. In this paper, we evaluate the use of compressed inverted indexes with adapted quer...
As the mobility of people increases, anytime, anywhere computing has become a must. The appearance of powerful portable computers, along with advancement in wireless communication...
Several mapping schemes have recently been proposed to store XML data in relational tables. Relational database systems are readily available and can handle vast amounts of data v...