Most modern DBMS optimizers rely upon a cost model to choose the best query execution plan (QEP) for any given query. Cost estimates are heavily dependent upon the optimizer’s e...
Michael Stillger, Guy M. Lohman, Volker Markl, Mok...
Developing cost models for query optimization is significantly harder for XML queries than for traditional relational queries. The reason is that XML query operators are much mor...
Ning Zhang 0002, Peter J. Haas, Vanja Josifovski, ...
The traditional focus of relational query optimization schemes has been on the choice of join methods and join orders. Restrictions have typically been handled in query optimizers ...
Peer-to-Peer infrastructures are emerging as one of the important data management infrastructures in the World Wide Web. So far, however, most work has focused on simple P2P networ...
Hadhami Dhraief, Alfons Kemper, Wolfgang Nejdl, Ch...
We now have incrementally-grown databases of text documents ranging back for over a decade in areas ranging from personal email, to news-articles and conference proceedings. While...