There has been an information explosion in fields of science such as high energy physics, astronomy, environmental sciences and biology. There is a critical need for automated sys...
Srinath Shankar, Ameet Kini, David J. DeWitt, Jeff...
Abstract— Developing a full-fledged cost-based XQuery optimizer is a fairly complex task. Nowadays, there is little knowledge concerning suitable cost formulae and optimization ...
Decision-support applications in emerging environments require that SQL query results or intermediate results be shipped to clients for further analysis and presentation. These cl...
Commercial databases compete for market share, which is composed of not only net-new sales to those purchasing a database for the first time, but also competitive “win-backs”...
Reynold Xin, Patrick Dantressangle, Sam Lightstone...
In this paper we explore database segmentation in the context of a column-store DBMS targeted at a scientific database. We present a novel hardware- and scheme-oblivious segmentati...