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: 8274
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1992
Pagerank: 0.00010269584
Overall Rank: 1,587 | 89.12%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Justin Zobel (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology)
2. Alistair Moffat (University of Melbourne)
3. Ron Sacks-Davis (Collaborative Information Technology Research Institute)

BibTeX Citation

@article{zobel_vldb92,
        title = {{An Efficient Indexing Technique for Full-Text Database Systems}},
        author = {Zobel, Justin and Moffat, Alistair and Sacks-Davis, Ron},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '92},
        pages = {352--362},
        year = {1992}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,407	Fast Incremental Indexing for Full-Text Information Retrieval	1994	VLDB	0.00010856546
1,592	Efficient Processing of Joins on Set-valued Attributes	2003	SIGMOD	0.00010253457
1,989	Incremental Updates of Inverted Lists for Text Document Retrieval	1994	SIGMOD	9.3486136e-05
3,058	Comparing Hybrid Peer-to-Peer Systems	2001	VLDB	7.8069146e-05
3,897	Searching Large Lexicons for Partially Specified Terms using Compressed Inverted Files	1993	VLDB	7.0403273e-05
4,270	Interaction of Query Evaluation and Buffer Management for Information Retrieval	1998	SIGMOD	6.7919363e-05
6,879	Oracle8i Index-Organized Table and its Application to New Domains	2000	VLDB	5.7475732e-05
8,585	Probabilistic Management of OCR Data using an RDBMS	2012	VLDB	5.4075213e-05
10,315	Fast Indexing for Temporal Information Retrieval	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,428	Pay-As-You-Go - An Adaptive Approach to Provide Full Context-Aware Text Search over Document Content	2010	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
14,246	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
1,136	Bit Transposed Files	1985	VLDB	0.00012027691
3,621	Signature files: Design and performance comparison of some signature extraction methods.	1985	SIGMOD	7.247103e-05
6,169	Efficiency of Nested Relational Document Database Systems	1991	VLDB	5.951668e-05

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