Federated queries are regular relational queries accessing data on one or more remote relational or non-relational data sources, possibly combining them with tables stored in the ...
Stephan Ewen, Holger Kache, Volker Markl, Vijaysha...
Query folding refers to the activity of determining if and how a query can be answered using a given set of resources, which might be materialized views, cached results of previou...
The diversity and large volumes of data processed in the Natural Sciences today has led to a proliferation of highlyspecialized and autonomous scientific databases with inherent a...
Anastasios Kementsietsidis, Frank Neven, Dieter Va...
We study the problem of query optimization in federated relational database systems. The nature of federated databases explicitly decouples many aspects of the optimization proces...
Current federated systems deploy cost-based query optimization mechanisms; i.e., the optimizer selects a global query plan with the lowest cost to execute. Thus, cost functions in...
Wen-Syan Li, Vishal S. Batra, Vijayshankar Raman, ...