A common problem in many types of databases is retrieving the most similar matches to a query object. Finding those matches in a large database can be too slow to be practical, es...
The efficient management of interval data represents a core requirement for many temporal and spatial database applications. With the Relational Interval Tree (RI-tree1 ), an effi...
It is clearly crucial for the success of object-oriented databases to find effiĆ cient implementations that improve on the performance of relational sysĆ tems, rather than being...
Recent data stream systems such as TelegraphCQ have employed the well-known property of duality between data and queries. In these systems, query processing methods are classified...
To effectively support today's global economy, database systems need to manage data in multiple languages simultaneously. While current database systems do support the storag...