Many of the problems with native XML databases relate to query performance and subsequently, it can be difficult to convince traditional database users of the benefits of using se...
Martin F. O'Connor, Zohra Bellahsene, Mark Roantre...
Rooted in electronic publishing, XML is now widely used for modelling and storing structured text documents. Especially in the WWW, retrieval of XML documents is most useful in co...
Felix Weigel, Holger Meuss, Klaus U. Schulz, Fran&...
Given a record set D and a query score function F, a top-k query returns k records from D, whose values of function F on their attributes are the highest. In this paper, we investi...
Partitioning within a B-tree, based on an artificial leading key column and combined with online reorganization, can be exploited during external merge sort for accurate deep read...
Graph-structured databases and related problems such as reachability query processing have been increasingly relevant to many applications such as XML databases, biological databas...