A database index is a data structure that improves the speed of data retrieval operations on a database table at the cost of additional writes and storage...
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book indexers used index cards in the creation of book indexes until they were replaced by indexing software in the 1980s and 1990s. Small databases can...
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Look up Index, index, indexes, indice, or indices in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Index (pl.: indexes or indices) may refer to: Index (A Certain Magical...
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IATA maintains a database of travel information worldwide and all destinations that are in the IATA database are considered by the index. However, because...
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ContactPoint (redirect from National Child Database)
the working titles of Information Sharing Index (or IS Index or ISI) and the Children's Index. The database, created under the Children Act 2004, cost...
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The Roud Folk Song Index is a database of around 250,000 references to nearly 25,000 songs collected from oral tradition in the English language from...
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computer science, an inverted index (also referred to as a postings list, postings file, or inverted file) is a database index storing a mapping from content...
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The Indexed Database API (commonly referred to as IndexedDB) is a JavaScript application programming interface (API) provided by web browsers for managing...
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CouchDB. A spatial index is used by a spatial database to optimize spatial queries, implementing spatial access methods. Database systems use indices...
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A database composite index or multi-column index is an index that is based on several columns. "MySQL 5.0 Reference Manual". v t e...
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ISAM (redirect from Indexed Sequential Access Method)
implementations did not do so. Most generally, any index for a database. Indexes are used by almost all databases. In an ISAM system, data is organized into records...
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the index in the back of a book. The same data can have multiple indexes (an employee database could be indexed by last name and hire date). Indexes affect...
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publishers and database companies employ indexers. Before indexing software existed, indexes were created using slips of paper or, later, index cards. After...
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Database management systems provide multiple types of indexes to improve performance and data integrity across diverse applications. Index types include...
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Block Range Index or BRIN is a database indexing technique. They are intended to improve performance with extremely large tables. BRIN indexes provide similar...
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A relational database (RDB) is a database based on the relational model of data, as proposed by E. F. Codd in 1970. A Relational Database Management System...
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In databases an index is a data structure, part of the database, used by a database system to efficiently navigate access to user data. Index data are...
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Web of Science (redirect from Conference Proceedings Citation Index)
consists of six online indexing databases: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), previously entitled Science Citation Index, covers more than 9,200...
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A bitmap index is a special kind of database index that uses bitmaps. Bitmap indexes have traditionally been considered to work well for low-cardinality...
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A citation index is a kind of bibliographic index, an index of citations between publications, allowing the user to easily establish which later documents...
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vendors, or directly from their makers: the indexing and abstracting services. Many bibliographic databases have evolved into digital libraries, providing...
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its graph database with vector search". itbrief. 2023-08-22. "Vector search indexes". neo4j. "Neo4j licensing". "Top Fifteen Vector Databases". db-engines...
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The Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) is the United States national DNA database created and maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. CODIS...
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set of master database tables by a network of foreign key constraints. Each foreign key constraint is dependent upon a unique database index from the parent...
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this database, termed "Specialty Citation Indexes", such as the Neuroscience Citation Index and the Chemistry Citation Index, however these databases are...
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Corporation. Columnstore Indexes: Overview. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/indexes/columnstore-indexes-overview . Accessed March...
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as the definition of peace to create the Global Peace Index. An additional aim of the GPI database is to facilitate deeper study of the concept of positive...
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Developing KDD-Applications Supported by Index-Structures) is a data mining (KDD, knowledge discovery in databases) software framework developed for use...
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Search engine indexing is the collecting, parsing, and storing of data to facilitate fast and accurate information retrieval. Index design incorporates...
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synonyms, value ranges, indexes, users, and user groups are stored. It is an architecture product that documents the database's content and data quality...
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