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VLDB
2005
ACM
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15 years 8 months ago
Caching with 'Good Enough' Currency, Consistency, and Completeness
SQL extensions that allow queries to explicitly specify data quality requirements in terms of currency and consistency were proposed in an earlier paper. This paper develops a dat...
Hongfei Guo, Per-Åke Larson, Raghu Ramakrish...
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VLDB
1998
ACM
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15 years 6 months ago
Filtering with Approximate Predicates
Approximate predicates can be used to reduce the number of comparisons made by expensive, complex predicates. For example, to check if a point is within a region (expensive predic...
Narayanan Shivakumar, Hector Garcia-Molina, Chandr...
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EDBT
2004
ACM
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16 years 2 months ago
Declustering Two-Dimensional Datasets over MEMS-Based Storage
Due to the large difference between seek time and transfer time in current disk technology, it is advantageous to perform large I/O using a single sequential access rather than mu...
Hailing Yu, Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi
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SIGMOD
2004
ACM
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16 years 2 months ago
Approximation Techniques for Spatial Data
Spatial Database Management Systems (SDBMS), e.g., Geographical Information Systems, that manage spatial objects such as points, lines, and hyper-rectangles, often have very high ...
Abhinandan Das, Johannes Gehrke, Mirek Riedewald
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DOLAP
1999
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Design and Selection of Materialized Views in a Data Warehousing Environment: A Case Study
In this paper, we describe the design of a data warehousing system for an engineering company ‘R’. This system aims to assist users in retrieving data for business analysis in...
Goretti K. Y. Chan, Qing Li, Ling Feng