In response to the widespread use of the XML format for document representation and message exchange, major database vendors support XML in terms of persistence, querying and inde...
Encryption is a well established technology for protecting sensitive data. However, once encrypted, data can no longer be easily queried aside from exact matches. We present an or...
Rakesh Agrawal, Jerry Kiernan, Ramakrishnan Srikan...
This work is a proposal for a database index structure that has been specifically designed to support the evaluation of XPath queries. As such, the index is capable to support all...
Abstract-Unstructured text represents a large fraction of the world's data. It often contain snippets of structured information within them (e.g., people's names and zip ...
Daisy Zhe Wang, Eirinaios Michelakis, Joseph M. He...
Querying non-conventional data is recognized as a major issue in new environments and applications such as those occurring in pervasive computing. A key issue is the ability to qu...