Since the 1970’s, database systems have been “compute-centric”. When a computation needs the data, it requests the data, and the data are pulled through the system. We belie...
Subi Arumugam, Alin Dobra, Christopher M. Jermaine...
: Collaborative querying seeks to help users formulate an accurate query to a search engine by sharing expert knowledge or other users' search experiences. One approach to acc...
Lin Fu, Dion Hoe-Lian Goh, Schubert Shou-Boon Foo,...
We introduce and study a new class of queries that we refer to as ACMA (arithmetic constraints on multiple attributes) queries. Such combinatorial queries require the simultaneous...
Virtually all proposals for querying XML include a class of query we term "containment queries". It is also clear that in the foreseeable future, a substantial amount of...
Chun Zhang, Jeffrey F. Naughton, David J. DeWitt, ...
Ranking queries produce results that are ordered on some computed score. Typically, these queries involve joins, where users are usually interested only in the top-k join results....