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VLDB
1994
ACM
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Fast, Randomized Join-Order Selection - Why Use Transformations?
César A. Galindo-Legaria, Arjan Pellenkoft,...
VLDB
1994
ACM
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Qualified Answers That Reflect User Needs and Preferences
This paper introduces a formalism to describe the needs and preferences of database users. Because of the precise formulation of these concepts, we have found an automatic and ver...
Terry Gaasterland, Jorge Lobo
VLDB
1994
ACM
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OdeFS: A File System Interface to an Object-Oriented Database
OdeFSis a file-like interface to the Ode objectoriented database. OdeFS allows database objects to be accessedand manipulated with standardcommands,just like files in atraditional...
Narain H. Gehani, H. V. Jagadish, William D. Roome
VLDB
1994
ACM
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Implementing Lazy Database Updates for an Object Database System
Current object database management systems support user-defined conversion functions to update the database once the schema has been modified. Two main strategies are possible whe...
Fabrizio Ferrandina, Thorsten Meyer, Roberto Zicar...
VLDB
1994
ACM
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Client-Server Paradise
This paper describes the design and implementation of Paradise, a database system designed for handling GIS type of applications. The current version of Paradise, uses a client{se...
David J. DeWitt, Navin Kabra, Jun Luo, Jignesh M. ...
VLDB
1994
ACM
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Memory-Contention Responsive Hash Joins
In order to maximize systemperformancein environments with fluctuating memory contention, memory-intensive algorithms such as hash join must gracefully adapt to variations in avai...
Diane L. Davison, Goetz Graefe
VLDB
1994
ACM
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NAOS - Efficient and Modular Reactive Capabilities in an Object-Oriented Database System
This paper describes the design and implementation of NAOS, an active rule component in the object-oriented database system 02. The contribution of this work is related to two mai...
Christine Collet, Thierry Coupaye, T. Svensen
VLDB
1994
ACM
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A Multidatabase System for Tracking and Retrieval of Financial Data
We have built a multidatabase system to support a financial application that stores historical data used by traders to identify trends in the market. The application has an update...
Munir Cochinwala, John Bradley
VLDB
1994
ACM
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On Index Selection Schemes for Nested Object Hierarchies
In this paper we address the problem of devising a set of indexes for a nested object hierarchy in an object-oriented database to improve the overall system performance. It is not...
Sudarshan S. Chawathe, Ming-Syan Chen, Philip S. Y...
VLDB
1994
ACM
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Including Group-By in Query Optimization
In existing relational database systems, processing of group-by and computation of aggregate functions are always postponed until all joins are performed. In this paper, we presen...
Surajit Chaudhuri, Kyuseok Shim