When implementing persistent objects on a relational database, a major performance issue is prefetching data to minimize the number of roundtrips to the database. This is especial...
: A new issue that arises in modern applications involves the efficient manipulation of (static or moving) spatial objects, and the relationships among them. As a result, modern da...
Yannis Theodoridis, Timos K. Sellis, Apostolos Pap...
From beginning of 1994 to the end of 1996, the IRO-DB ESPRIT project has developed tools for accessing relational and object-oriented databases in an integrated way. The system is...
Peter Fankhauser, Georges Gardarin, M. Lopez, J. M...
Abstract. This work discusses the CROQUE approach to the maintenance problem for materialized views. In a CROQUE database, application-speci ed collections (type extents or classes...
Motivation: Database search programs such as FASTA, BLAST or a rigorous Smith–Waterman algorithm produce lists of database entries, which are assumed to be related to the query....