There has been a significant amount of excitement and recent work on column-oriented database systems ("column-stores"). These database systems have been shown to perfor...
Information extraction from text databases is a useful paradigm to populate relational tables and unlock the considerable value hidden in plain-text documents. However, information...
While database management systems offer a comprehensive solution to data storage, they require deep knowledge of the schema, as well as the data manipulation language, in order to...
Energy costs are quickly rising in large-scale data centers and are soon projected to overtake the cost of hardware. As a result, data center operators have recently started turni...
Stavros Harizopoulos, Mehul A. Shah, Justin Meza, ...
Spatial relationships are important issues for similarity-based retrieval in many image database applications. With the popularity of digital cameras and the related image process...