We develop a new schema for unstructured data. Traditional schemas resemble the type systems of programming languages. For unstructured data, however, the underlying type may be mu...
Peter Buneman, Susan B. Davidson, Mary F. Fernande...
We describe the design of Mariposa, an experimental distributed data management system that provides high performance in an environment of high data mobility and heterogeneous hos...
Michael Stonebraker, Paul M. Aoki, Robert Devine, ...
We show how (now familiar) hierarchical representations of (convex) polyhedra can be used to answer various separation queries efficiently (in a number of cases, optimally). Our e...
Conventional approachesto execution of database queries on general purpose multiprocessorsattempt to maximizesystemthroughputusinginter-queryparallelism with a fixed numberof proc...
Query processing is one of the most, critical issues in Object-Oriented DBMSs. Extensible opt,imizers with efficient, search strategies require a cost model to select the most eff...
Georges Gardarin, Jean-Robert Gruser, Zhao-Hui Tan...