Bertino / Ooi / Sacks-Davis Indexing Techniques for Advanced Database Systems

1997
ISBN: 978-1-4615-6227-6
Verlag: Springer US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 8, 250 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Advances in Database Systems

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.
is suitable as a secondary text for a graduate level course on indexing techniques, and as a reference for researchers and practitioners in industry.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bertino, Elisa

Ooi, Beng Chin

Sacks-Davis, Ron

Tan, Kian-Lee

Zobel, Justin

Shidlovsky, Boris

Andronico, Daniele

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface. 1. Object-Oriented Databases. 2. Spatial Databases. 3. Image Databases. 4. Temporal Databases. 5. Text Databases. 6. Emerging Applications. References. Index.