To be able to handle the ever growing volumes of XML documents, effective and efficient data management solutions are needed. Managing XML data in a relational DBMS has great pote...
Queries with (equality or LIKE) selection predicates over string attributes are widely used in relational databases. However, state-of-the-art techniques for estimating selectivit...
Abstract. An algorithm for ranking spatial objects according to increasing distance from a query object is introduced and analyzed. The algorithm makes use of a hierarchical spatia...
In this article, we review the major paradigms for approximate similarity queries and propose a classification schema that easily allows existing approaches to be compared along ...
Bitmap indices are efficient data structures for processing complex, multi-dimensional queries in data warehouse applications and scientific data analysis. For high-cardinality at...