Database query languages can be intimidating to the nonexpert, leading to the immense recent popularity for keyword based search in spite of its significant limitations. The holy ...
This work addresses a novel spatial keyword query called the m-closest keywords (mCK) query. Given a database of spatial objects, each tuple is associated with some descriptive inf...
XML has emerged as the standard data exchange format for Internet-based business applications. This has created the need to publish existing business data, stored in relational da...
Jayavel Shanmugasundaram, Jerry Kiernan, Eugene J....
Database workloads consist of mixes of queries that run concurrently and interact with each other. In this paper, we demonstrate that query interactions can have a significant imp...
Query optimizers use base-table statistics to derive statistics on the sub-plans that are enumerated during optimization. In practice, traditional optimizers rely on a number of s...