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VLDB
1998
ACM
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Computing Iceberg Queries Efficiently
Many applications compute aggregate functions over an attribute (or set of attributes) to find aggregate values above some specified threshold. We call such queries iceberg querie...
Min Fang, Narayanan Shivakumar, Hector Garcia-Moli...
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VLDB
1998
ACM
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Filtering with Approximate Predicates
Approximate predicates can be used to reduce the number of comparisons made by expensive, complex predicates. For example, to check if a point is within a region (expensive predic...
Narayanan Shivakumar, Hector Garcia-Molina, Chandr...
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SIGMOD
1996
ACM
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Optimizing Queries over Multimedia Repositories
Repositories of multimedia objects having multiple types of attributes e.g., image, text are becoming increasingly common. A selection on these attributes will typically produce n...
Surajit Chaudhuri, Luis Gravano
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PDIS
1993
IEEE
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Nested Loops Revisited
The research communityhas considered hash-based parallel joinalgorithmsthe algorithmsof choice for almosta decade. However, almostnone ofthe commercialparallel database systems us...
David J. DeWitt, Jeffrey F. Naughton, Joseph Burge...
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VLDB
1992
ACM
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Multiversion Query Locking
Multiversion two-phase locking (MV2PL) has been incorporated in some commercial transaction processing systems to support the serializable execution of queries. A drawback to this...
Paul M. Bober, Michael J. Carey