This paper attempts to de ne an object-oriented database system. It describes the main features and characteristics that a system must have to qualify as an objectoriented databas...
: Relational database systems are highly efficient hosts to table-shaped data. It is all the more interesting to see how a careful inspection of both, the XML tree structure as wel...
In this paper we discuss two data models for spatial database systems: the linear data model and the topological data model. Both can be used to model a wide range of applications....
Automatically generating sufficient database states is imperative to reduce human efforts in testing database applications. Complementing the traditional block or branch coverage...
Order-based queries over XML data include XPath navigation axes such as following-sibling and following. In this paper, we present holistic algorithms that evaluate such order-bas...
Zografoula Vagena, Nick Koudas, Divesh Srivastava,...