The query optimizer of a database system is confronted with two aspects when handling user-defined functions (UDFs) in query predicates: the vast differences in evaluation costs b...
This paper addresses the problem of evaluating ranked top-? queries with expensive predicates. As major DBMSs now all support expensive user-defined predicates for Boolean queries...
On the Web, there is a pervasive use of XML to give lightweight semantics to textual collections. Such documentcentric XML collections require a query language that can gracefully...
Jaap Kamps, Maarten Marx, Maarten de Rijke, Bö...
Abstract. Monitoring aggregates on IP traffic data streams is a compelling application for data stream management systems. Often, such streaming aggregation queries involve joining...
Lukasz Golab, Theodore Johnson, Nick Koudas, Dives...
To effectively support today's global economy, database systems need to store and manipulate text data in multiple languages simultaneously. Current database systems do suppor...