Bitmap indexing has emerged as a vital tool in the efficient management and interrogation of scientific data. By representing data elements as bits, these indexes facilitate rapid, ...

Austin, Texas-based startup Pilosa has announced the launch of the community edition of its "distributed bitmap index" aimed at dramatically improving querying speeds on datasets greater than 1TB ...

Oracle9i includes numerous data structures to improve the speed of Oracle SQL queries. Taking advantage of the low cost of disk storage, Oracle9i includes many new indexing algorithms that ...