Queries navigate semistructured data via path expressions, and can be accelerated using an index. Our solution encodes paths as strings, and inserts those strings into a special i...
Brian F. Cooper, Neal Sample, Michael J. Franklin,...
A "plan diagram" is a pictorial enumeration of the execution plan choices of a database query optimizer over the relational selectivity space. We have shown recently tha...
Query optimization is an integral part of relational database management systems. One important task in query optimization is selectivity estimation, that is, given a query P, we ...
The ability to manage metadata is a critical requirement of the grid, but scientists have not been given the tools needed to catalog experimental data based complex metadata attri...
Scott Jensen, Beth Plale, Sangmi Lee Pallickara, Y...
Database technology remains underused in science, especially in the long tail the small labs and individual researchers that collectively produce the majority of scientic output...
Bill Howe, Garrett Cole, Emad Souroush, Paraschos ...