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An Algebraic Approach to the Complexity of Generalized Conjunctive Queries
Ist Teil von
Lecture notes in computer science, 2005, p.30-45
Ort / Verlag
Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erscheinungsjahr
2005
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Conjunctive-query containment is considered as a fundamental problem in database query evaluation and optimization. Kolaitis and Vardi pointed out that constraint satisfaction and conjunctive query containment are essentially the same problem. We study the Boolean conjunctive queries under a more detailed scope, where we investigate their counting problem by means of the algebraic approach through Galois theory, taking advantage of Post’s lattice. We prove a trichotomy theorem for the generalized conjunctive query counting problem, showing this way that, contrary to the corresponding decision problems, constraint satisfaction and conjunctive-query containment differ for other computational goals. We also study the audit problem for conjunctive queries asking whether there exists a frozen variable in a given query. This problem is important in databases supporting statistical queries. We derive a dichotomy theorem for this audit problem that sheds more light on audit applicability within database systems.