Evaluation Strategies for Top-k Queries over Memory-Resident Inverted Indexes
Summary: Evaluation of DAAT vs TAAT top-k query strategies over memory-resident inverted indexes in Yahoo's online-ad platform. Adapts disk-oriented algorithms to memory and shows up to 60% latency and cost reductions on real ad workloads, confirming algorithmic gains. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Marcus Fontoura (Google)
- 2. Vanja Josifovski (Yahoo!)
- 3. Jinhui Liu (Yahoo!)
- 4. Srihari Venkatesan (Yahoo!)
- 5. Xiangfei Zhu (Yahoo!)
- 6. Jason Zien (Yahoo!)
BibTeX Citation
@article{fontoura_vldb11,
title = {{Evaluation Strategies for Top-k Queries over Memory-Resident Inverted Indexes}},
author = {Fontoura, Marcus and Josifovski, Vanja and Liu, Jinhui and Venkatesan, Srihari and Zhu, Xiangfei and Zien, Jason},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '11},
volume = {4},
number = {12},
doi = {10.14778/3402755.3402756},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3402755.3402756},
year = {2011}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 4,150 | Efficient Top-K SimRank-based Similarity Join | 2015 | VLDB | 6.7794413e-05 |
| 12,033 | Tanium Reveal: A Federated Search Engine for Querying Unstructured File Data on Large Enterprise Networks | 2021 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-05 |
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware [Extended Abstract] | 2001 | PODS | 0.0010679641 |
| 2,793 | Indexing Boolean Expressions | 2009 | VLDB | 8.0052633e-05 |
| 3,004 | Optimized Query Execution in Large Search Engines with Global Page Ordering | 2003 | VLDB | 7.7632345e-05 |
| 5,324 | Efficiently Evaluating Complex Boolean Expressions | 2010 | SIGMOD | 6.179987e-05 |
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