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SPIRE
2005
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Using the k-Nearest Neighbor Graph for Proximity Searching in Metric Spaces
Proximity searching consists in retrieving from a database, objects that are close to a query. For this type of searching problem, the most general model is the metric space, where...
Rodrigo Paredes, Edgar Chávez
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VLDB
2005
ACM
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C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS
This paper presents the design of a read-optimized relational DBMS that contrasts sharply with most current systems, which are write-optimized. Among the many differences in its d...
Michael Stonebraker, Daniel J. Abadi, Adam Batkin,...
EDBT
2004
ACM
142views Database» more  EDBT 2004»
15 years 9 months ago
Computing and Handling Cardinal Direction Information
Qualitative spatial reasoning forms an important part of the commonsense reasoning required for building intelligent Geographical Information Systems (GIS). Previous research has c...
Spiros Skiadopoulos, Christos Giannoukos, Panos Va...
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VLDB
2004
ACM
98views Database» more  VLDB 2004»
15 years 8 months ago
Top-k Query Evaluation with Probabilistic Guarantees
Top-k queries based on ranking elements of multidimensional datasets are a fundamental building block for many kinds of information discovery. The best known general-purpose algor...
Martin Theobald, Gerhard Weikum, Ralf Schenkel
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XSYM
2004
Springer
88views Database» more  XSYM 2004»
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Teaching Relational Optimizers About XML Processing
Due to their numerous benefits, relational systems play a major role in storing XML documents. XML also benefits relational systems by providing a means to publish legacy relatio...
Sihem Amer-Yahia, Yannis Kotidis, Divesh Srivastav...