Object database management systems (ODBMSs) typically offer fixed approaches to evolve the schema of the database and adapt existing instances accordingly. Applications, however, h...
Abstract. Data storage systems are being called on to manage continuous media data types, such as digital audio and video. There is a demand by applications for \constrained-latenc...
This paper argues that most queries in object-oriented databases require traversing from one object to another in the aggregation hierarchy. Thus, the connections between objects ...
"Sparse" data, in which relations have many attributes that are null for most tuples, presents a challenge for relational database management systems. If one uses the no...
Jennifer L. Beckmann, Alan Halverson, Rajasekar Kr...
Building an XML store means finding solutions to the problems of representing, accessing, querying and updating XML data. The irregularity of both the structure and usage of XML, ...