In implementations of non-standard database systems, large objects are often embedded within an aggregate of different types, i.e. a tuple. For a given size and access probabilit...
Skyline queries have attracted considerable attention over the last few years, mainly due to their ability to return interesting objects without the need for user-defined scoring f...
Given a set of multi-dimensional points, the skyline contains the best points according to any preference function that is monotone on all axes. In practice, applications that req...
When query optimizers erroneously assume that database columns are statistically independent, they can underestimate the selectivities of conjunctive predicates by orders of magni...
Ihab F. Ilyas, Volker Markl, Peter J. Haas, Paul G...
: Multimedia applications nowadays are becoming the standard, for they utilize the enormous human brain computational power. In the past, the Relational Database Model was generali...