… staircase join, a novel join operator that encapsulates knowledge on the underlying …. The required changes to the DBMS kernel remain remarkably small: staircase join … of adding a single join operator only. The impact on performance, however …
PhD thesis, Technische Universität München, October 2006. [doi]… technical contributions, such as loop-lifted staircase join and efficient relational query evaluation strategies for XQuery theta-joins with existential semantics …
SIGMOD 2006: 479-490 [doi]… access to these data is enabled in terms of staircase join, a join operator …
btw 2007: 465-474 [doi]… , most notably the TwigStack, structural join, and staircase join algorithms. However …To compensate for the inherent impedance mismatch between the relational data model (tables of tuples) and XML (ordered, unranked trees), tree join algorithms …
SIGMOD 2007: 949-958 [doi]… kernel, such as the staircase join operator. A join recognition logic in our …
VLDB 2005: 1322-1325 [doi]… , positional lookup, and node skipping in staircase join [7]. However, once updates …
edbt 2006: 1190-1193 [doi]