Traditional client-server applications relegate query and persistence operations on their data to database systems. The database system operates on data in the form of rows and ta...
Software repositories provide abundance of valuable information about open source projects. With the increase in the size of the data maintained by the repositories, automated ext...
In information-integration systems, source relations often have limitations on access patterns to their data; i.e., when one must provide values for certain attributes of a relatio...
The full disjunction is a variation of the join operator that maximally combines tuples from connected relations, while preserving all information in the relations. The full disju...
Modern query optimizers select an efficient join ordering for a physical execution plan based essentially on the average join selectivity factors among the referenced tables. In ...