In this paper, we focus on the development of a framework for automatic metadata generation. The first step towards this framework is the definition of an Application Programmer I...
Online approaches to physical design tuning have received considerable attention in the recent literature, with a focus on the problem of online index selection. However, it is dif...
This paper presents a general-purpose distributed lookup service, denoted Passive Distributed Indexing (PDI). PDI stores entries in form of (key, value) pairs in index caches loca...
As databases get widely deployed, it becomes increasingly important to reduce the overhead of database administration. An important aspect of data administration that critically i...
In addition to indexes and materialized views, horizontal and vertical partitioning are important aspects of physical design in a relational database system that significantly imp...