This paper investigates the problem of incremental joins of multiple ranked data sets when the join condition is a list of arbitrary user-defined predicates on the input tuples. ...
Apostol Natsev, Yuan-Chi Chang, John R. Smith, Chu...
We consider query optimization techniques for data intensive P2P applications. We show how to adapt an old technique from deductive databases, namely Query-Sub-Query (QSQ), to a s...
: Database-internal statistics are very important for cost-based query optimizers. Only if an optimizer has accurate statistical information about data, it provides excellent execu...
We extend the binary search technique to searching in trees. We consider two models of queries: questions about vertices and questions about edges. We present a general approach t...
Iceberg queries are a special case of SQL queries involving GROUP BY and HAVING clauses, wherein the answer set is small relative to the database size. We present here a performanc...
Krishna P. Leela, Pankaj M. Tolani, Jayant R. Hari...