Oracle Parallel Server (OPS) is a shared disk RDBMS. We present a high level overview of the main architectural issues of OPS and their evolution throughout the releases of the Or...
Roger Bamford, D. Butler, Boris Klots, N. MacNaugh...
Beginning to create the New Oxford English Dictionary database has resulted in the realization that databases for reference texts are unlike those for conventional enterprises. Wh...
While standardization efforts for XML query languages have been progressing, researchers and users increasingly focus on the database technology that has to deliver on the new cha...
Albrecht Schmidt 0002, Florian Waas, Martin L. Ker...
Incorporating the skyline operator inside the relational engine requires solving the cardinality estimation and the cost estimation problem, hitherto unaddressed. We propose robus...
Surajit Chaudhuri, Nilesh N. Dalvi, Raghav Kaushik
There is currently considerable interest in developing multimedia digital libraries. However, it has become clear that existing architectures for management systems do not support...
Elisa Bertino, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Mohand-Said Ha...