Despite the existence of obstacles in many database applications, traditional spatial query processing utilizes the Euclidean distance metric assuming that points in space are dire...
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The concept of thumbnails is common in image representation. A thumbnail is a highly compressed version of an image that provides a small, yet complete visual representation to th...
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Matching regular expressions (regexps) is a very common workload. For example, tokenization, which consists of recognizing words or keywords in a character stream, appears in ever...
Over the last decade the cost of producing genomic sequences has dropped dramatically due to the current so called “next-gen” sequencing methods. However, these next-gen seque...
Database system architectures are undergoing revolutionary changes. Most importantly, algorithms and data are being unified by integrating programming languages with the database ...