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...
The standard database mechanisms for concurrency control, which include transactions and locking protocols, do not provide the support needed for updating complex geographic data i...
Petko Bakalov, Erik G. Hoel, Sudhakar Menon, Vassi...
Multidimensional Analysis in On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP), and Scientific and statistical databases (SSDB) use operations requiring summary information on multi-dimensiona...
We present a method for searching in an image database using a query image that is similar to the intended target. The query image may be a hand-drawn sketch or a (potentially low...
Charles E. Jacobs, Adam Finkelstein, David Salesin
DescribeX is a visual, interactive tool for exploring the underlying structure of an XML collection. DescribeX implements a framework for creating XML summaries described using axi...
Mir Sadek Ali, Mariano P. Consens, Shahan Khatchad...