Data warehousing systems integrate information from operational data sources into a central repository to enable analysis and mining of the integrated information. During the integ...
Accurate cardinality estimation is critically important to high-quality query optimization. It is well known that conventional cardinality estimation based on histograms or simila...
The family of threshold algorithm (i.e., TA) has been widely studied for efficiently computing top-k queries. TA uses a sort-merge framework that assumes data lists are pre-sorted...
Good cardinality estimates are critical for generating good execution plans during query optimization. Complex predicates, correlations between columns, and user-defined functions...
We have developed new methods for log-based recovery for middleware servers which involve thread pooling, private inmemory states for clients, shared in-memory state and message i...