The elapsed time for external mergesort is normally dominated by I/O time. This paper is focused on reducing I/O time during the merge phase. Three new buffering and readahead str...
From beginning of 1994 to the end of 1996, the IRO-DB ESPRIT project has developed tools for accessing relational and object-oriented databases in an integrated way. The system is...
Peter Fankhauser, Georges Gardarin, M. Lopez, J. M...
: Structural queries constitute a special form of content-basedretrieval where the user specifiesa set of spatial constraints among query variables and asks for all configurations ...
In this paper we describe the architecture and interface of KODA, a production strength database kernel. KODA is unique in the industry in its ability to support two different dat...
Oracle Parallel Server (OPS) is a shared disk RDBMS. We present a high level overview of the main architectural issues of OPS and their evolution throughout the releases of the Or...
Roger Bamford, D. Butler, Boris Klots, N. MacNaugh...