On the Costs of Multilingualism in Database Systems

Summary: Cross-system study quantifies missing multilingual SQL features, Unicode-induced performance degradation, and optimizer inaccuracies versus ISO:8859. Cuniform, a compressed Unicode-convertible format, largely removes overhead for small-repertoire scripts and enables multilexical SQL extensions. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 9158
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2003
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 13,937 | 4.38%
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012722442-8/50018-5

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Authors

1. A. Kumaran (Indian Institute of Science)
2. Jayant R. Haritsa (Indian Institute of Science)

BibTeX Citation

@article{kumaran_vldb03,
        title = {{On the Costs of Multilingualism in Database Systems}},
        author = {Kumaran, A. and Haritsa, Jayant R.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '03},
        doi = {10.1016/B978-012722442-8/50018-5},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-012722442-8/50018-5},
        year = {2003}
}

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12,775	LexEQUAL: Multilexical Matching Operator in SQL	2004	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

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