We present Stretch `n' Shrink, a query design framework that explicitly takes into account user preferences about the desired answer size, and subsequently modifies the query...
A database schema should be able to evolve to reflect changes to the universe it represents. In existing systems, user transactions get blocked during complex schema transformation...
Statistical analysis of massive data is becoming indispensable to science, commerce, and society today. Such analysis requires efficient, flexible storage support and special optim...
There is a class of data, including messages and business workflow state, for which conventional monolithic databases are less than ideal. Performance and scalability of Applicati...
Many software applications produced today have a component, of lesser or greater importance to the structure, that is based on database management systems. What is more, this infor...