Sensors are often employed to monitor continuously changing entities like locations of moving objects and temperature. The sensor readings are reported to a database system, and a...
Reynold Cheng, Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Sunil Prabha...
Historically, bitmap indexing has provided an important database capability to accelerate queries. However, only a few database systems have implemented these indexes because of t...
Elizabeth J. O'Neil, Patrick E. O'Neil, Kesheng Wu
In the rank join problem, we are given a set of relations and a scoring function, and the goal is to return the join results with the top K scores. It is often the case in practic...
Increasingly, for extensibility and performance, specialpurpose application code is being integrated with database system code. Such application code has direct access to database...
Philip Bohannon, Rajeev Rastogi, S. Seshadri, Abra...
A recurring manual task in data integration, ontology alignment or model management is finding mappings between complex meta data structures. In order to reduce the manual effor...