: A buffer is a main-memory area used to reduce accessto disks. The buffer holds pages from secondary storage files. A processrequesting a page causesa fault if the pageis not in t...
Estimation via sampling out of highly selective join queries is well known to be problematic, most notably in online aggregation. Without goal-directed sampling strategies, samples...
This paper is concerned with the efficient execution of multiple query workloads on a cluster of SMPs. We target applications that access and manipulate large scientific dataset...
Abstract. Many heterogeneous database system products and prototypes exist today; they will soon be deployed in a wide variety of environments. Most existing systems suffer from an...
We study the problem of answering spatial queries in databases where objects exist with some uncertainty and they are associated with an existential probability. The goal of a thre...
Xiangyuan Dai, Man Lung Yiu, Nikos Mamoulis, Yufei...