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
The proliferation of the World Wide Web has brought information retrieval (IR) techniques to the forefront of search technology. To the average computer user, “searching” now ...
— This work considers the problem of hosting multiple third-party Internet services in a cost-effective manner so as to maximize a provider’s business objective. For this purpo...
Bruno D. Abrahao, Virgilio Almeida, Jussara M. Alm...
—As traditional and mission-critical relational database workloads migrate to the cloud in the form of Databaseas-a-Service (DaaS), there is an increasing motivation to provide p...
Willis Lang, Srinath Shankar, Jignesh M. Patel, Aj...
?Past R-tree studies have focused on the number of nodes visited as a metric of query performance. Since database systems usually include a buffering mechanism, we propose that the...