We study efficient query processing in distributed web search engines with global index organization. The main performance bottleneck in this case is due to the large amount of i...
Current relational databases require that a database schema exist prior to data entry and require manual optimization for best performance. We describe the query optimization tech...
Scott M. Meyer, Jutta Degener, John Giannandrea, B...
Web search engines are facing formidable performance challenges due to data sizes and query loads. The major engines have to process tens of thousands of queries per second over t...
In the relational model it has been shown that the flat relational algebra has the same expressive power as the nested relational algebra, as far as queries over flat relations ...
Wim Le Page, Jan Hidders, Philippe Michiels, Jan P...
Making multi-terabyte scientific databases publicly accessible over the Internet is increasingly important in disciplines such as Biology and Astronomy. However, contention at a c...
Xiaodan Wang, Tanu Malik, Randal C. Burns, Stratos...