Providing scalable database services is an essential requirement for extending many existing applications of the Cloud platform. Due to the diversity of applications, database ser...
Jinbao Wang, Sai Wu, Hong Gao, Jianzhong Li, Beng ...
Pre-computation and materialization of views with aggregate functions is a common technique in Data Warehouses. Due to the complex structure of the warehouse and the different pro...
Supporting top-k queries over distributed collections of schemaless XML data poses two challenges. While XML supports expressive query languages such as XPath and XQuery, these la...
Semistructured databases are treated as dynamically typed: they come equipped with no independent schema or type system to constrain the data. Query languages that are designed fo...
Web search engines often federate many user queries to relevant structured databases. For example, a product related query might be federated to a product database containing thei...