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...
Large collections of documents are commonly created around a database, where a typical database schema may contain hundreds of tables and thousands of columns. We developed a syst...
Carlos Garcia-Alvarado, Carlos Ordonez, Zhibo Chen...
Many analysis and monitoring applications require the repeated execution of expensive modeling functions over streams of rapidly changing data. These applications can often be exp...
Several web applications (such as processing RSS feeds or web service messages) rely on XPath-based data manipulation tools. Web developers need to use XPath queries effectively o...
We propose a novel approach for de ning and querying a super-peer within a schema-based super-peer network organized into a two-level architecture: the low level, called the peer l...