Background: The Structural Descriptor Database (SDDB) is a web-based tool that predicts the function of proteins and functional site positions based on the structural properties o...
Juliana S. Bernardes, Jorge H. Fernandez, Ana Tere...
This paper evaluates the performance of the parallel, main-memory DBMS, PRISMA/DB. First, an architecture for parallel query execution is presented. A performance model for the ex...
Annita N. Wilschut, Jan Flokstra, Peter M. G. Aper...
Relational database systems may be turned into efficient XML and XPath processors if the system is provided with a suitable relational tree encoding. This paper extends this relat...
This paper describes issues encountered in the design and implementation of a parallel object-oriented database system. In particular, we find that the design of a client/server ...
Despite the recent proliferation of work on semistructured data models, there has been little work to date on supporting uncertainty in these models. In this paper, we propose a m...