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VLDB
2005
ACM
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14 years 1 months ago
Consistently Estimating the Selectivity of Conjuncts of Predicates
Cost-based query optimizers need to estimate the selectivity of conjunctive predicates when comparing alternative query execution plans. To this end, advanced optimizers use multi...
Volker Markl, Nimrod Megiddo, Marcel Kutsch, Tam M...
PODS
2009
ACM
130views Database» more  PODS 2009»
14 years 8 months ago
Secondary indexing in one dimension: beyond b-trees and bitmap indexes
Let be a finite, ordered alphabet, and consider a string x = x1x2 . . . xn n . A secondary index for x answers alphabet range queries of the form: Given a range [al, ar] , retu...
Rasmus Pagh, Srinivasa Rao Satti
PODS
2008
ACM
123views Database» more  PODS 2008»
14 years 7 months ago
Evaluating rank joins with optimal cost
In the rank join problem, we are given a set of relations and a scoring function, and the goal is to return the join results with the top K scores. It is often the case in practic...
Karl Schnaitter, Neoklis Polyzotis
COMPGEOM
1997
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
Robust Proximity Queries: An Illustration of Degree-Driven Algorithm Design
Abstract. In the context of methodologies intended to confer robustness to geometric algorithms, we elaborate on the exact-computation paradigm and formalize the notion of degree o...
Giuseppe Liotta, Franco P. Preparata, Roberto Tama...
DASFAA
2004
IEEE
158views Database» more  DASFAA 2004»
13 years 11 months ago
A Cost Model for Spatial Intersection Queries on RI-Trees
Abstract. The efficient management of interval sequences represents a core requirement for many temporal and spatial database applications. With the Relational Interval Tree (RI-tr...
Hans-Peter Kriegel, Martin Pfeifle, Marco Pöt...