On the Costs of Multilingualism in Database Systems

Summary: Evaluates multilingual text support in DBMSs, noting missing features and optimizer gaps. Proposes Cuniform, a Unicode-convertible compressed format that cuts multilingual overhead for small repertoires and enables SQL extensions for multilexical text. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8968
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2003
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Overall Rank: 13,750 | 4.44%
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1. A. Kumaran
2. Jayant R. Haritsa

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