Increasing application demands are pushing database management systems (DBMSs) towards providing adequate and efficient support for content-based retrieval over multimedia objects...
We study the fundamental limitations of relational algebra (RA) and SQL in supporting sequence and stream queries, and present effective query language and data model enrichments ...
Many applications in analytical domains often have the need to "connect the dots" i.e., query about the structure of data. In bioinformatics for example, it is typical t...
Keyword search in relational databases has been widely studied in recent years. Most of the previous studies focus on how to answer an instant keyword query. In this paper, we focu...
Supporting SPARQL queries over relational databases becomes an active topic recently. However, it has not received enough consideration when SPARQL queries include restrictions on...