In recent years there has been an upsurge of interest in spatial databases. A major issue is how to manipulate efficiently massive amounts of spatial data stored on disk in multidi...
Lars Arge, Klaus Hinrichs, Jan Vahrenhold, Jeffrey...
With the continued advancements in location-based services involved infrastructures, large amount of time-based location data are quickly accumulated. Distributed processing techni...
Bin Yang 0002, Qiang Ma, Weining Qian, Aoying Zhou
Partitioning within a B-tree, based on an artificial leading key column and combined with online reorganization, can be exploited during external merge sort for accurate deep read...
XML has already become the de facto standard for specifying and exchanging data on the Web. However, XML is by nature verbose and thus XML documents are usually large in size, a fa...
Wilfred Ng, Wai Yeung Lam, Peter T. Wood, Mark Lev...
Disk I/O is a major bottleneck for query processing in database applications. This bottleneck is especially a problem for temporal databases because of their large size. Reduction...