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ICDE
2006
IEEE
16 years 5 months ago
2006
IEEE
We present a new technique for using samples to estimate join cardinalities. This technique, which we term "end-biased samples," is inspired by recent work in network tr...
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ICDE
2006
IEEE
16 years 5 months ago
2006
IEEE
Data integration from multiple autonomous data sources has emerged as an important practical problem. The key requirement for such data integration is that owners of such data nee...
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ICDE
2006
IEEE
16 years 5 months ago
2006
IEEE
Many evolving database applications warrant the use of non-traditional indexing mechanisms beyond B+-trees and hash tables. SP-GiST is an extensible indexing framework that broade...
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ICDE
2006
IEEE
16 years 5 months ago
2006
IEEE
Currently, clinical information is stored in all kinds of proprietary formats through a multitude of medical information systems available on the market. This results in a severe ...
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ICDE
2006
IEEE
16 years 5 months ago
2006
IEEE
A k-NN query finds the k nearest-neighbors of a given point from a point database. When it is sufficient to measure object distance using the Euclidian distance, the key to effici...
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ICDE
2006
IEEE
16 years 5 months ago
2006
IEEE
Data partitioning is often used to scale-up a database system. In a centralized database system, the serialization order of commited update transactions can be inferred from the d...
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ICDE
2006
IEEE
16 years 5 months ago
2006
IEEE
Until recently, most data integration techniques involved central components, e.g., global schemas, to enable transparent access to heterogeneous databases. Today, however, with t...