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Index Research: Forest or Trees?
Summary: Meta-analysis of indexing research questions, challenges, complexities, and a branching problem space across access methods. Advocates benchmarks, evaluation methodology, and transfer; ORDBMS extensibility as a path for indexing research.
(summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
- Paper ID
- 3224
- Venue
- SIGMOD
- Year
- 2000
- Pagerank
- 4.6535251e-05
- Overall Rank
- 7,779 | 45.89%
- DOI
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