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SIGMOD
2005
ACM
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14 years 9 months ago
RankSQL: Query Algebra and Optimization for Relational Top-k Queries
This paper introduces RankSQL, a system that provides a systematic and principled framework to support efficient evaluations of ranking (top-k) queries in relational database syst...
Chengkai Li, Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang, Ihab F. Ilyas...
ICDT
2010
ACM
194views Database» more  ICDT 2010»
13 years 11 months ago
Bag Equivalence of XPath Queries
When a query is evaluated under bag semantics, each answer is returned as many times as it has derivations. Bag semantics has long been recognized as important, especially when ag...
Sara Cohen, Yaacov Y. Weiss
ESWS
2011
Springer
13 years 19 days ago
Optimizing Query Shortcuts in RDF Databases
The emergence of the Semantic Web has led to the creation of large semantic knowledge bases, often in the form of RDF databases. Improving the performance of RDF databases necessit...
Vicky Dritsou, Panos Constantopoulos, Antonios Del...
KCAP
2009
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Cross ontology query answering on the semantic web: an initial evaluation
PowerAqua1 is a Question Answering system, which takes as input a natural language query and is able to return answers drawn from relevant semantic resources found anywhere on the...
Vanessa Lopez, Victoria S. Uren, Marta Sabou, Enri...
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
135views Database» more  SIGMOD 2009»
14 years 9 months ago
Interactive plan hints for query optimization
Commercial database systems expose query hints to fix poor plans produced by the query optimizer. However, current query hints are not flexible enough to deal with a variety of no...
Nicolas Bruno, Surajit Chaudhuri, Ravishankar Rama...