In this paper we present a model of functional access to data that, we argue, is suitable for modeling a class of data repositories characterized by functional access, such as web ...
Many web databases can be seen as providing partial and overlapping information about entities in the world. To answer queries effectively, we need to integrate the information abo...
Ravi Gummadi, Anupam Khulbe, Aravind Kalavagattu, ...
We present an approach to dealing with skew in parallel joins in database systems. Our approach is easily implementable within current parallel DBMS, and performs well on skewed d...
David J. DeWitt, Jeffrey F. Naughton, Donovan A. S...
We demonstrate MMS, a system for storing and managing a variety of metadata in a simple, elegant and uniform way. The system is based on two observations. First, that the relation...
This paper addresses issues related to containment join processing in tree-structured data such as XML documents. A containment join takes two sets of XML node elements as input a...
Wei Wang 0011, Haifeng Jiang, Hongjun Lu, Jeffrey ...