Most operations of the relational algebra or SQL - like projection with duplicate elimination, join, ordering, group by and aggregations - are efficiently processed using a sorted...
XQuery is known to be a powerful XML query language with many bells and whistles. For many common queries we do not need all the expressive power of XQuery. We investigate the eff...
Jan Hidders, Stefania Marrara, Jan Paredaens, Roel...
Abstract. Multidimensional databases are large collections of data, often historical, used for sophisticated analysis oriented to decision making. This activity is supported by an ...
In the emerging area of sensor-based systems, a significant challenge is to develop scalable, fault-tolerant methods to extract useful information from the data the sensors collec...
Jeffrey Considine, Feifei Li, George Kollios, John...
In this paper we introduce generalized projections (GPs), an extension of duplicateeliminating projections, that capture aggregations, groupbys, duplicate-eliminating projections ...