• 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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  • 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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    information technology, the term database is often used to refer to any collection of related data (such as a spreadsheet or a card index) as size and usage requirements...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • systems like MongoDB and CouchDB. A spatial index is used by a spatial database to optimize spatial queries. Database systems use indices to quickly look up...
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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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  • 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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    Investigation (FBI) before the adoption of computerized databases. The Index List was originally made of paper index cards, first compiled by J. Edgar Hoover at the...
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    flat-file database is a database stored in a file called a flat file. Records follow a uniform format, and there are no structures for indexing or recognizing...
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  • Database normalization is the process of structuring a relational database in accordance with a series of so-called normal forms in order to reduce data...
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    Terrorism Database Patterns of Global Terrorism Global Peace Index Global Militarization Index United States Peace Index Mexico Peace Index Institute...
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  • 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 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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    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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  • 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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  • profiles and 200,000 samples. The United States national DNA database is called Combined DNA Index System (CODIS). It is maintained at three levels: national...
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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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  • Oracle Database (commonly referred to as Oracle DBMS, Oracle Autonomous Database, or simply as Oracle) is a proprietary multi-model database management...
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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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  • 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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  • relational database is a (most commonly digital) database based on the relational model of data, as proposed by E. F. Codd in 1970. A database management...
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  • The MANTIS Database (Manual, Alternative and Natural Therapy Index System) is an index of English-language and selected other-language biomedical journal...
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  • The Alternative Press Index (API) is an American bibliographic database that indexes politically progressive publications. Founded in 1969, the journal...
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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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  • 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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    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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