Database management is attracting wide interest in both academic and industrial contexts. New application areas such as CAD/CAM, geographic information systems, and multimedia are emerging. The needs of these application areas are far more complex than those of conventional business applications. The purpose of this book is to bring together a set of current research issues that addresses a broad spectrum of topics related to database systems and applications. The book is divided into four parts: - object-oriented databases, - temporal/historical database systems, - query processing in database systems, - heterogeneity, interoperability, open system architectures, multimedia database systems.

The database field has experienced a rapid and incessant growth since the development of relational databases. The progress in database systems and applications has produced a diverse landscape of specialized technology areas that have often become the exclusive domain of research specialists. Examples include active databases, temporal databases, object-oriented databases, deductive databases, imprecise reasoning and queries, and multimedia information systems. This book provides a systematic introduction to and an in-depth treatment of these advanced database areas. It supplies practitioners and researchers with authoritative coverage of recent technological advances that are shaping the future of commercial database systems and intelligent information systems. Advanced Database Systems was written by a team of six leading specialists who have made significant contributions to the development of the technology areas covered in the book. Benefiting from the authors' long experience teaching graduate and professional courses, this book is designed to provide a gradual introduction to advanced research topics and includes many examples and exercises to support its use for individual study, desk reference, and graduate classroom teaching.

The chapters of this book provide an excellent snapshot of current research and development activities in the area of query processing and optimization. They supply potential answers to many questions that have been raised for new types of database systems and at the same time reflect the variety of the different approaches taken. The book acts both as a reference for the state of the art in query processing for the "next generation" of database systems, and as a good starting point for anybody interested in understanding the challenging questions in the area. Furthermore, the book will help the reader to gain an in-depth understanding of why efficient query processing is needed for future database systems.

A thorough presentation of query processing techniques in a broad range of database systems for advanced applications. Provides the most effective query processing techniques and ways to optimize the information retrieval process. Intended for database systems designers creating advanced applications.

The objective of this book is to address the advanced and emerging topics of modern database systems starting from the inception. This book is developed as a text book for the compulsory subject Database System / Database Management System / Advanced Database System of B. Tech/B.E, M.C.A and other courses of Computer Science and Engineering, Software Engineering and Information Technology. In this book, total 17 chapters have been included, namely, Introduction to Database Management System, Fundamentals of Database Management System, Conceptual Data Modeling, The Relational Data Model, Normalization, Relational Query Languages, Transaction Management & Concurrency Control, Database Recovery and Security, Query Processing, Parallel Database System, Distributed Database System - Concepts & Design, Object-Oriented Databases, Spatial Database System, Temporal and Statistical Database Systems, Data Warehousing, Data Mining, and Cloud Computing. Recent AICTE approved syllabus of B.Tech/B.E and MCA has been consulted for preparation of the content of the book. This book is intended for those who are professionally interested in advanced database concepts including students and teachers of computer science, software engineering and information technology, researchers, application developers, and analysts.

This book is an anthology of the results of research and development in database query processing during the past decade. The relational model of data provided tremendous impetus for research into query processing. Since a relational query does not specify access paths to the stored data, the database management system (DBMS) must provide an intelligent query-processing subsystem which will evaluate a number of potentially efficient strategies for processing the query and select the one that optimizes a given performance measure. The degree of sophistication of this subsystem, often called the optimizer, critically affects the performance of the DBMS. Research into query processing thus started has taken off in several directions during the past decade. The emergence of research into distributed databases has enormously complicated the tasks of the optimizer. In a distributed environment, the database may be partitioned into horizontal or vertical fragments of relations. Replicas of the fragments may be stored in different sites of a network and even migrate to other sites. The measure of performance of a query in a distributed system must include the communication cost between sites. To minimize communication costs for-queries involving multiple relations across multiple sites, optimizers may also have to consider semi-join techniques.

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