"Sparse" data, in which relations have many attributes that are null for most tuples, presents a challenge for relational database management systems. If one uses the no...
Jennifer L. Beckmann, Alan Halverson, Rajasekar Kr...
Integrating geographical and multidimensional processing has been proposed in several researches in the database literature. One of the most important issues of this process is dat...
Joel da Silva, Ausberto S. Castro Vera, Anjolina G...
When building scalable systems that involve general-purpose computation and persistent data, object-oriented languages and relational databases are often essential components. Yet...
We consider pedigree data structured in the form of a directed acyclic graph, and use an encoding scheme, called NodeCodes, for expediting the evaluation of queries on pedigree gr...
Brendan Elliott, Suleyman Fatih Akgul, Stephen May...
Database outsourcing is an important emerging trend which involves data owners delegating their data management needs to an external service provider. Since a service provider is a...