We investigate and compare two forms of recursion on sets for querying nested collections. The rst one is called sri and it corresponds to sequential processing of data. The second...
Good cardinality estimates are critical for generating good execution plans during query optimization. Complex predicates, correlations between columns, and user-defined functions...
Physical database design is important for query performance in a shared-nothing parallel database system, in which data is horizontally partitioned among multiple independent node...
Jun Rao, Chun Zhang, Nimrod Megiddo, Guy M. Lohman
Electronic commerce is emerging as a major application area for database systems. A large number of e-commerce stores provide electronic product catalogs that allow customers to s...
Document-centric XML collections contain text-rich documents, marked up with XML tags. The tags add lightweight semantics to the text. Querying such collections calls for a hybrid...