This paper discusses the use of XML in conjunction with a variety of repositories and database systems, and outlines some of the requirements for an effective query language. Many...
Vertical partitioning is a well-known technique for optimizing query performance in relational databases. An extreme form of this technique, which we call vectorization, is to sto...
Peter Buneman, Byron Choi, Wenfei Fan, Robert Hutc...
Current relational databases require that a database schema exist prior to data entry and require manual optimization for best performance. We describe the query optimization tech...
Scott M. Meyer, Jutta Degener, John Giannandrea, B...
We present a framework for the estimation of the size of binary recursively defined relations. We show how the framework can be used to provide estimating algo rithms for the size...
Commercial relational database systems today provide only limited temporal support. To address the needs of applications requiring rich temporal data and queries, we have built TI...