The challenge of peer-to-peer computing goes beyond simple file sharing. In the DBGlobe project, we view the multitude of peers carrying data and services as a superdatabase. Our ...
This work may be seen as a further proof of the versatility of the relational database model. Here, we add XQuery to the catalog of languages which RDBMSs are able to "speak&...
Keyword search in relational databases (RDBs) has been extensively studied recently. A keyword search (or a keyword query) in RDBs is specified by a set of keywords to explore the...
Many information retrieval systems use the inverted file as indexing structure. The inverted file, however, is not suited to supporting incremental updates when new documents are ...
Virtually all proposals for querying XML include a class of query we term "containment queries". It is also clear that in the foreseeable future, a substantial amount of...
Chun Zhang, Jeffrey F. Naughton, David J. DeWitt, ...