Unions of conjunctive queries, also known as select-project-join-union queries, are the most frequently asked queries in relational database systems. These queries are definable b...
Abstract. We present a cost-based adaptive clustering method to improve average performance of spatial queries (intersection, containment, enclosure queries) over large collections...
Queries in object-oriented datab;Lqcs are formulated against a class and retrieve instnnccls of the class sat,isfying a certain predicate on the att,riblltes of the class. The pre...
Vertical partitioning is a well-known technique for optimizing query performance in relational databases. An extreme form of this technique, which we call vectorization, is to sto...
Peter Buneman, Byron Choi, Wenfei Fan, Robert Hutc...
We present SECONDO, a new generic environment supporting the implementation of database systems for a wide range of data models and query languages. On the one hand, this framewor...