Present databases, whether on centralized or parallel DBMSs, do not deal well with scalability. We present an architecture for Wintel multicomputers termed AMOS-SDDS, coupling a h...
Yakham Ndiaye, Aly Wane Diene, Witold Litwin, Tore...
Structural join operations are central to evaluating queries against XML data, and are typically responsible for consuming a lion's share of the query processing time. Thus, ...
Keyword search is an effective approach for most users to search for information because they do not need to learn complex query languages or the underlying structures of the data....
Various index structures have been proposed to speed up the evaluation of XML path expressions. However, existing XML path indices suffer from at least one of three limitations: ...
Zhiyuan Chen, Johannes Gehrke, Flip Korn, Nick Kou...
Querying any information system requires the knowledge of some formal language, making it inaccessible to computer-na?ve potential users. We propose a new intuitive querying mecha...