We show how structured data stored in files can benefit from standard database technology and in particular be queried and updated using database languages. We introduce the notio...
Transactional standards have been promoted by OMG and X/Open to allow heterogeneous resources to participate in an Atomic Commitment Protocol (ACP), namely the two-phase commit pro...
In this paper we consider the problem of the incremental mining of sequential patterns when new transactions or new customers are added to an original database. We present a new a...
Due to the popularity of the XML data format, several query languages for XML have been proposed, specially devised to handle data whose structure is unknown, loose, or absent. Wh...
Daniela Florescu, Donald Kossmann, Ioana Manolescu
Two complementary families of users' tasks may be identified during database visualization: data browsing and data analysis. On the one hand, data browsing involves extensive...
Many papers have been written on the structural aspect of view mechanisms for object-oriented databases. A clean model that focuses speci cally on the interplay between methods an...
: We consider the use of a cluster system with a shared nothing architecture for update-intensive autonomous databases. To optimize load balancing, we use optimistic database repli...