We consider the problem of indexing general database workloads (combinations of data sets and sets of potential queries). We dene a framework for measuring the eciency of an ind...
Joseph M. Hellerstein, Elias Koutsoupias, Christos...
XML database systems are expected to handle increasingly complex queries over increasingly large and highly structured XML databases. An important problem that needs to be solved ...
Iman Elghandour, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Daniel C. Zilio...
Tuning tools attempt to configure a database to achieve optimal performance for a given workload. Selecting an optimal set of physical structures is computationally hard since it ...
Ioannis Alagiannis, Debabrata Dash, Karl Schnaitte...
The recent emergence of network interface cards (NICs) with diverse hardware features for I/O virtualization poses an important challenge for virtual machine environments, particu...
Jose Renato Santos, Yoshio Turner, Jayaram Mudigon...
Databases are continuously evolving environments, where design constructs are added, removed or updated rather often. Small changes in the database configurations might impact a l...
George Papastefanatos, Fotini Anagnostou, Yannis V...