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CIKM
1998
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Layered Index Structures in Document Database Systems
In this paper, a signature file method for indexing document database systems is presented. For this purpose, the concept of presentative word hierarchy is introduced, based on whi...
Yangjun Chen, Karl Aberer
WWW
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Exploiting web search engines to search structured databases
Web search engines often federate many user queries to relevant structured databases. For example, a product related query might be federated to a product database containing thei...
Arnd Christian König, Dong Xin, Kaushik Chakr...
PVLDB
2010
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15 years 5 months ago
Regret-Minimizing Representative Databases
We propose the k-representative regret minimization query (k-regret) as an operation to support multi-criteria decision making. Like top-k, the k-regret query assumes that users h...
Danupon Nanongkai, Atish Das Sarma, Ashwin Lall, R...
ICDE
2010
IEEE
379views Database» more  ICDE 2010»
16 years 6 months ago
Osprey: Implementing MapReduce-Style Fault Tolerance in a Shared-Nothing Distributed Database
In this paper, we describe a scheme for tolerating and recovering from mid-query faults in a distributed shared nothing database. Rather than aborting and restarting queries, our s...
Christopher Yang, Christine Yen, Ceryen Tan, Samue...
PVLDB
2008
146views more  PVLDB 2008»
15 years 6 months ago
Graceful database schema evolution: the PRISM workbench
Supporting graceful schema evolution represents an unsolved problem for traditional information systems that is further exacerbated in web information systems, such as Wikipedia a...
Carlo Curino, Hyun Jin Moon, Carlo Zaniolo