Rewriting queries using views is a powerful technique that has applications in query optimization, data integration, data warehousing etc. Query rewriting in relational databases ...
Tree patterns with full text search form the core of both XQuery Full Text and the NEXI query language. On such queries, users expect a relevance-ranked list of XML elements as an...
A variety of developments combine to highlight the need for respecting order when manipulating relations. For example, new functionality is being added to SQL to support OLAP-styl...
Giedrius Slivinskas, Christian S. Jensen, Richard ...
Physical design for object-oriented databases is still in its infancy. Implementation decisions often intrude into the conceptual design (such as inverse links and object decompos...
We describe ShreX, a freely-available system for shredding, loading and querying XML documents in relational databases. ShreX supports all mapping strategies proposed in the liter...