In existing database systems there is a strong need for searching data according to many attributes. In commercial database platforms, the standard search over multiple attributes...
In XML retrieval, two distinct approaches have been established and pursued without much cross-fertilization taking place so far. On the one hand, native XML databases tailored to...
XML data warehouses form an interesting basis for decision-support applications that exploit complex data. However, native-XML database management systems (DBMSs) currently bear l...
Today, there is an increasing demand to share data with complex data types (e.g., multi-dimensional) over large numbers of data sources. One of the key challenges is sharing these ...
Today, more and more enterprises process XML data, many of them already in XML database systems. Once systems start to grow in size, scalability becomes an issue. One of the core o...