This paper presents the design of a read-optimized relational DBMS that contrasts sharply with most current systems, which are write-optimized. Among the many differences in its d...
Michael Stonebraker, Daniel J. Abadi, Adam Batkin,...
Abstract. The vast majority of papers on distributed computing assume that processes are assigned unique identifiers before computation begins. But is this assumption necessary? W...
There are two ways to write a program for manipulating tree-structured data such as XML documents: One is to write a tree-processing program focusing on the logical structure of t...
Given time and location information about digital photographs we can automatically generate an abundance of related contextual metadata, using off-the-shelf and Web-based data so...
Mor Naaman, Susumu Harada, QianYing Wang, Hector G...
Abstract. In relational database management systems indexes are used to accelerate specific queries. The selection of indexes is an important task when tuning a database which is ...
Beda Christoph Hammerschmidt, Martin Kempa, Volker...