Database management systems will continue to manage large data volumes. Thus, efficient
algorithms for accessing and manipulating large sets and sequences will be required to …

The lead optimization process in drug discovery campaigns is an arduous endeavour where
the input of many medicinal chemists is weighed in order to reach a desired molecular …

This paper provides a systematic and comprehensive study of the underlying semantics of
temporal databases, summarizing the results of an intensive collaboration between the two …

To investigate the interactions of extensibility and parallelism in database query processing,
we have developed a new dataflow query execution system called Volcano. The Volcano …

" Spatial Databases covers all of the major themes of the field--representation, query
languages, computational geometry, spatial indexing--using geographic information …

Topological relationships between spatial objects represent important knowledge that users
of geographic information systems expect to retrieve from a spatial database. A difficult task …

Spatial joins are one of the most important operations for combining spatial objects of
several relations. The efficient processing of a spatial join is extremely important since its …

When SQL and the relational data model were introduced 25 years ago as a general data
management concept, enterprise software migrated quickly to this new technology. It is fair …

In the last fifty years the world has been completely transformed through the use of IT. We
have now reached a new inflection point. This book presents, for the first time, how in …

In this paper, we describe a main memory hybrid database system called HYRISE, which
automatically partitions tables into vertical partitions of varying widths depending on how the …