We present recommendations on Performance Management for databases supporting Binary Large Objects (BLOB) that, under a wide range of conditions, save both storage space and datab...
Object-oriented databases are a recent and important development and many studies of them have been performed. These consider aspects such as data modeling, query languages, perfo...
A join index hierarchy method is proposed to handle the "goto's on disk" problem in objectoriented query processing. The method constructs a hierarchy of join indic...
The model of flexible relations supports heterogeneous sets of tuples in a strongly typed way. The elegance of the standard relational model is preserved by using a single, generi...
The multidimensional, heterogeneous, and temporal nature of speech databases raises interesting challenges for representation and query. Recently, annotation graphs have been prop...