Spatial and temporal database systems, both in theory and in practice, have developed dramatically over the past two decades to the point where usable commercial systems, underpin...
John F. Roddick, Max J. Egenhofer, Erik G. Hoel, D...
Physical database design is important for query performance in a shared-nothing parallel database system, in which data is horizontally partitioned among multiple independent node...
Jun Rao, Chun Zhang, Nimrod Megiddo, Guy M. Lohman
XML Schema awareness has been an integral part of the XQuery language since its early design stages. Matching XML data against XML types is the main operation that backs up XQuery...
Generic libraries, such as the C++ Standard Template Library (STL), provide flexible, high-performance algorithms and data types, along with functional specifications and performa...
Decision support queries that scan large indexes can suffer significant degradation in I/O performance due to index fragmentation. DBAs rely on rules of thumb that use index size a...