Design principles for XML schemas that eliminate redundancies and avoid update anomalies have been studied recently. Several normal forms, generalizing those for relational databa...
Applications that create and consume unstructured data have grown both in scale of storage requirements and complexity of search primitives. We consider two such applications: exha...
Aravindan Raghuveer, Biplob K. Debnath, David Hung...
For many applications with spatial data management such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS), block-oriented access over flash memory could introduce a significant number of no...
Cassandra is a distributed storage system for managing very large amounts of structured data spread out across many commodity servers, while providing highly available service wit...
A system for the acquisition, storage, indexing, and retrieval of map images is presented. The input to this system are raster images of separate map layers and map composites. A ...