Indexing Techniques for Advanced Database Systems / Edition 1

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Overview

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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Overviews the range of advanced indexing techniques, explains how to select appropriate indexes for different applications, and provides a foundation for development of new and more robust indexes. Five chapters discuss indexing problems and techniques for object-oriented, spatial, image, temporal, and text databases. A final chapter discusses indexing problems in emerging applications. Suitable as a secondary text for a graduate level course on indexing techniques, and as a reference for researchers and practitioners in industry. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780792399858
Publisher: Springer US
Publication date: 8/31/1997
Series: Advances in Database Systems , #8
Edition description: 1997
Edition number: 1
Pages: 250
Product dimensions: 9.21 (w) x 6.14 (h) x 0.63 (d)

	Preface
1	Object-oriented Databases	1
1.1	Object-oriented data model and query language	3
1.2	Index organizations for aggregation graphs	7
1.3	Index organizations for inheritance hierarchies	20
1.4	Integrated organizations	29
1.5	Caching and pointer swizzling	36
2	Spatial Databases	39
2.1	Query processing using approximations	40
2.2	A taxonomy of spatial indexes	42
2.3	Binary-tree based indexing techniques	46
2.4	B-tree based indexing techniques	56
2.5	Cell methods based on dynamic hashing	64
2.6	Spatial objects ordering	70
2.7	Comparative evaluation	71
3	Image Databases	77
3.1	Image database systems	78
3.2	Indexing issues and basic mechanisms	80
3.3	A taxonomy on image indexes	84
3.4	Color-spatial hierarchical indexes	91
3.5	Signature-based color-spatial retrieval	105
4	Temporal Databases	113
4.1	Temporal databases	114
4.2	Temporal queries	119
4.3	Temporal indexes	121
4.4	Experimental study	142
5	Text Databases	151
5.1	Querying text databases	152
5.2	Indexing	157
5.3	Query evaluation	169
5.4	Refinements to text databases	175
6	Emerging Applications	185
6.1	Indexing techniques for parallel and distributed databases	186
6.2	Indexing issues in mobile computing	194
6.3	Indexing techniques for data warehousing systems	203
6.4	Indexing techniques for the Web	210
6.5	Indexing techniques for constraint databases	214
	References	225
	Index	247

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