Scheduling query execution plans is an important component of query optimization in parallel database systems. The problem is particularly complex in a shared-nothing execution en...
This paper introduces bifocal sampling, a new technique for estimating the size of an equi-join of two relations. Bifocal sampling classi es tuples in each relation into two group...
Sumit Ganguly, Phillip B. Gibbons, Yossi Matias, A...
The constructionof high-performance databasesystems that combine the best aspects of the relational and object-oriented approaches requires the design of client-server architectur...
METU INteroperable Database System (MIND) is a multidatabase system that aims at achieving interoperability among heterogeneous, federated DBMSs. MIND architecture is based on OMG...
Materialized views and view maintenance are important for data warehouses, retailing, banking, and billing applications. We consider two related view maintenance problems: 1) how ...
Latha S. Colby, Timothy Griffin, Leonid Libkin, In...
Detecting and representing changes to data is important for active databases, data warehousing, view maintenance, and version and configuration management. Most previous work in c...
Sudarshan S. Chawathe, Anand Rajaraman, Hector Gar...
Repositories of multimedia objects having multiple types of attributes e.g., image, text are becoming increasingly common. A selection on these attributes will typically produce n...