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ICDE
1997
IEEE
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16 years 8 months ago
Modeling Multidimensional Databases
We propose a data model and a few algebraic operations that provide semantic foundation to multidimensional databases. The distinguishing feature of the proposed model is the symm...
Rakesh Agrawal, Ashish Gupta, Sunita Sarawagi
CIKM
2006
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Describing differences between databases
We study the novel problem of efficiently computing the update distance for a pair of relational databases. In analogy to the edit distance of strings, we define the update distan...
Heiko Müller, Johann Christoph Freytag, Ulf L...
PVLDB
2010
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15 years 1 months ago
CODS: Evolving Data Efficiently and Scalably in Column Oriented Databases
Database evolution is the process of updating the schema of a database or data warehouse (schema evolution) and evolving the data to the updated schema (data evolution). Database ...
Ziyang Liu, Sivaramakrishnan Natarajan, Bin He, Hu...
DANTE
1999
IEEE
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15 years 11 months ago
A Semantic Caching Method Based on Linear Constraints
Because performance is a crucial issue in database systems, data caching techniques have been studied in database research field, especially in client-server databases and distrib...
Yoshiharu Ishikawa, Hiroyuki Kitagawa
VLDB
1995
ACM
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15 years 10 months ago
Sampling-Based Estimation of the Number of Distinct Values of an Attribute
We provide several new sampling-based estimators of the number of distinct values of an attribute in a relation. We compare these new estimators to estimators from the database an...
Peter J. Haas, Jeffrey F. Naughton, S. Seshadri, L...