Fundamentals of Database Indexing and Searching - Hardcover

Bhattacharya, Arnab

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1466582545 ISBN 13: 9781466582545

Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2014

Synopsis

Fundamentals of Database Indexing and Searching presents well-known database searching and indexing techniques. It focuses on similarity search queries, showing how to use distance functions to measure the notion of dissimilarity.

After defining database queries and similarity search queries, the book organizes the most common and representative index structures according to their characteristics. The author first describes low-dimensional index structures, memory-based index structures, and hierarchical disk-based index structures. He then outlines useful distance measures and index structures that use the distance information to efficiently solve similarity search queries. Focusing on the difficult dimensionality phenomenon, he also presents several indexing methods that specifically deal with high-dimensional spaces. In addition, the book covers data reduction techniques, including embedding, various data transforms, and histograms.

Through numerous real-world examples, this book explores how to effectively index and search for information in large collections of data. Requiring only a basic computer science background, it is accessible to practitioners and advanced undergraduate students.

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Review

"The author analyzes a very large list of database indexing and searching techniques ... the book can be consulted to get inspiration from state-of-the-art techniques for database indexing and searching."
―Computing Reviews, August 2015

Edition details

• Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1466582545
• ISBN 13: 9781466582545
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 284