Conventional operators for data retrieval are either based on exact matching or on total order relationship among elements. Neither of them is appropriate to manage complex data, s...
The traditional focus of relational query optimization schemes has been on the choice of join methods and join orders. Restrictions have typically been handled in query optimizers ...
Digital libraries are a core information technology. When the stored data is complex, e.g. high-resolution images or molecular protein structures, simple query types like the exac...
One of the critical deficiencies of SQL is lack of support for ndimensional array-based computations which are frequent in OLAP environments. Relational OLAP (ROLAP) applications ...
Andrew Witkowski, Srikanth Bellamkonda, Tolga Bozk...
Good cardinality estimates are critical for generating good execution plans during query optimization. Complex predicates, correlations between columns, and user-defined functions...