We develop a new schema for unstructured data. Traditional schemas resemble the type systems of programming languages. For unstructured data, however, the underlying type may be mu...
Peter Buneman, Susan B. Davidson, Mary F. Fernande...
The OO7 Benchmark represents a comprehensive test of OODBMS performance. In this report we describe the benchmark and present performance results from its implementation in four O...
Michael J. Carey, David J. DeWitt, Jeffrey F. Naug...
Topological relationships between spatial objects represent important knowledge that users of geographic information systems expect to retrieve from a spatial database. A di cult t...
Eliseo Clementini, Paolino Di Felice, Peter van Oo...
This paper presents an innovative partitionbased time join strategy for temporal databases where time is represented by time intervals. The proposed method maps time intervals to ...
Inherent constraints play an important role in the semantic Xplain model. These constraints enable us to represent certain real world knowledge once for subsequent use in several ...