Based on a systematic study of the semantics of temporal attributes of entities, this paper provides new guidelines for the design of temporal relational databases. The notions of ...
The first Web-based version of the NIST X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Database (XPSDB) is described. The current database, built from a relational database management system (R...
Angela Y. Lee, Dorothy M. Blakeslee, Cedric J. Pow...
The join is the most important, but also the most time consuming operation in relational database systems. We implemented the parallel Hybrid Hash Join algorithm on a PC-cluster a...
This paper examines the properties of metadata in the form of IF THEN rules which contain two predicates on attributes of a relational database table. For example: a(15 .. 30) d(2...
Industrial and scientific datasets have been growing enormously in size and complexity in recent years. The largest transactional databases and data warehouses can no longer be ho...