B-tree and index into two layers of abstraction. In addition, this paper provides algorithms for (i) concurrency control and recovery including locking of individual keys and of co...
Due to the sensitive data contained in Data Warehouses (DW), it is essential to specify security measures from the early stages of the DW design and enforce them. Traditional acce...
Rules provide an expressive means for implementing database behavior: They cope with changes and their ramifications. Rules are commonly used for integrity enforcement, i.e., for ...
Wikipedia infoboxes is an example of a seemingly structured, yet extraordinarily heterogeneous dataset, where any given record has only a tiny fraction of all possible fields. Su...
A new access method, called M-tree, is proposed to organize and search large data sets from a generic "metric space", i.e. where object proximity is only defined by a di...