In the past few years, much attention has been paid to the study of semistructured data, i.e., data with irregular, possibly unstable, and rapidly changing structure, and, in part...
Handling large amounts of data, such as large image databases, requires the use of approximate nearest neighbor search techniques. Recently, Hamming embedding methods such as spec...
With the wide adoption of XML as a standard data representation and exchange format, querying XML documents becomes increasingly important. However, relational database systems co...
Automated extraction of structured data from Web sources often leads to large heterogeneous knowledge bases (KB), with data and schema items numbering in the hundreds of thousands...
The join operation, which combines tuples from multiple relations, is the most fundamental and, typically, the most expensive operation in database queries. The standard approach t...
Benjamin J. McMahan, Guoqiang Pan, Patrick Porter,...