Indexing Techniques for Advanced Database Systems
By: by Elisa Bertino, Beng Chin Ooi, Ron Sacks-Davis, Kian-Lee Tan, Justin Zobel, Boris Shidlovsky, Barbara Catania
Contributors: Ooi, Beng Chin; Sacks-Davis, Ron; Tan, Kian-Lee; Zobel, Justin; Shidlovsky, Boris; Catania, Barbara
Series: The Springer International Series on Advances in Database Systems -- 8; Springer International Series on Advances in Database Systems -- 8.
Publisher: Springer US
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781461378563; 9781461562276
Subjects: Information storage and retrieval systems; Computer science; Data structures (Computer science); Geographic information systems
Description: Recent years have seen an explosive growth in the use of new database applications such as CAD/CAM systems, spatial information systems, and multimedia information systems. The needs of these applications are far more complex than traditional business applications. They call for support of objects with complex data types, such as images and spatial objects, and for support of objects with wildly varying numbers of index terms, such as documents. Traditional indexing techniques such as the B-tree and its variants do not efficiently support these applications, and so new indexing mechanisms have been developed. As a result of the demand for database support for new applications, there has been a proliferation of new indexing techniques. The need for a book addressing indexing problems in advanced applications is evident. For practitioners and database and application developers, this book explains best practice, guiding the selection of appropriate indexes for each application. For researchers, this book provides a foundation for the development of new and more robust indexes. For newcomers, this book is an overview of the wide range of advanced indexing techniques. Indexing Techniques for Advanced Database Systems is suitable as a secondary text for a graduate level course on indexing techniques, and as a reference for researchers and practitioners in industry.
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