Many data objects in the real world have attributes about location and time. Such spatiotemporal objects can be found in applications such Geographic Information Systems (GIS), env...
Recently, push-based delivery has attracted considerable attention as a means of disseminating information to large client populations in both wired and wireless settings. In this...
When implementing persistent objects on a relational database, a major performance issue is prefetching data to minimize the number of roundtrips to the database. This is especial...
Microsoft SQL Server was successful for many years for transaction processing and decision support workloads with neither merge join nor hash join, relying entirely on nested loop...
Data warehouses are complex systems that have to deliver highly-aggregated, high quality data from heterogeneous sources to decision makers. Due to the dynamic change in the requir...
Manfred A. Jeusfeld, Christoph Quix, Matthias Jark...