An Efficient Indexing Technique for Full-Text Database Systems

Summary: Inverted-file index for full-text DBs using compression; enables fast retrieval by words, adjacent-word sequences, and term ranking. Small storage via compression, in-memory vocabulary, and, given memory, at most one disk access per query term; supports dynamic updates. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8084
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1992
Pagerank: 0.00013782361
Overall Rank: 1,128 | 92.17%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,152	Fast Incremental Indexing for Full-Text Information Retrieval	1994	VLDB	0.00013633341
1,514	Incremental Updates of Inverted Lists for Text Document Retrieval	1994	SIGMOD	0.00011571661
1,757	Efficient Processing of Joins on Set-valued Attributes	2003	SIGMOD	0.00010659352
2,430	Comparing Hybrid Peer-to-Peer Systems	2001	VLDB	8.8263253e-05
2,833	Interaction of Query Evaluation and Buffer Management for Information Retrieval	1998	SIGMOD	8.0471658e-05
2,896	Searching Large Lexicons for Partially Specified Terms using Compressed Inverted Files	1993	VLDB	7.9516944e-05
6,598	Oracle8i Index-Organized Table and its Application to New Domains	2000	VLDB	4.9934662e-05
8,377	Probabilistic Management of OCR Data using an RDBMS	2012	VLDB	4.5277353e-05
10,017	Fast Indexing for Temporal Information Retrieval	2026	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
12,241	Pay-As-You-Go - An Adaptive Approach to Provide Full Context-Aware Text Search over Document Content	2010	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
14,061	The Structured Information Manager: A Database System for SGML documents	1996	VLDB	-

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
828	Bit Transposed Files	1985	VLDB	0.00016141484
2,488	Signature files: Design and performance comparison of some signature extraction methods.	1985	SIGMOD	8.6535184e-05
5,233	Efficiency of Nested Relational Document Database Systems	1991	VLDB	5.6093194e-05

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