The top-k similarity joins have been extensively studied and used
in a wide spectrum of applications such as information retrieval, decision
making, spatial data analysis and dat...
Most declarative SQL-like query languagesfor object-oriented database systems (OOSQL) are orthogonal languages allowing for arbitrary nesting of expressions in the select-, from-,...
Hennie J. Steenhagen, Peter M. G. Apers, Henk M. B...
—Many companies now routinely run massive data analysis jobs – expressed in some scripting language – on large clusters of low-end servers. Many analysis scripts are complex ...
XML structural joins, which evaluate the containment (ancestor-descendant) relationships between XML elements, are important operations of XML query processing. Estimating structu...
There exists a need for high performance, read-only mainmemory database systems for OLAP-style application scenarios. Most of the existing works in this area are centered around t...