This paper describes some of the ways the Internet and World Wide Web have affected databases and data warehousing and the lasting impact in these areas.

We define the problem of content integration for E-Business, and show how it differs in fundamental ways from traditional issues surrounding data integration, application integration, data warehousing and OLTP. Content integration includes catalog ...

Web performance is a key differentiation among content providers. Snafus and slowdowns at major web sites demonstrate the difficulty that companies face trying to scale to a large amount of web traffic. One solution to this problem is to store web ...

We consider the monitoring of a flow of incoming documents. More precisely, we present here the monitoring used in a very large warehouse built from XML documents found on the web. The flow of documents consists in XML pages (that are warehoused) and ...

Publish/Subscribe is the paradigm in which users express long-term interests (“subscriptions”) and some agent “publishes” events (e.g., offers). The job of Publish/Subscribe software is to send events to the owners of subscriptions satisfied by those ...

The contents of many valuable web-accessible databases are only accessible through search interfaces and are hence invisible to traditional web “crawlers.” Recent studies have estimated the size of this “hidden web” to be 500 billion pages, while the ...