The binary form of an image does not tell what the image is about. It is possible to retrieve images from a database using pattern matching techniques, but usually textual descript...
Querying XML effectively and efficiently using declarative languages such as XQuery and XPath has been widely studied in both academic and industrial settings. Most RDBMS vendors ...
Zhen Hua Liu, Muralidhar Krishnaprasad, James W. W...
In this paper, we study the maintenance of role-based access control (RBAC) models in database environments using transitive closure relations. In particular, the algorithms that ...
A fundamental problem in data management is to draw a sample of a large data set, for approximate query answering, selectivity estimation, and query planning. With large, streamin...
Graham Cormode, S. Muthukrishnan, Ke Yi, Qin Zhang
An object database management system (OODBMS) has been often criticized for its alleged insufficient scalability for a large-scale production system. We investigated the scalabili...