In article <57da7b56.0106091541.247b462d_at_posting.google.com>, Paul G. Brown
says...
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>Martin Drautzburg <drautzburg_at_altavista.net> wrote in message news:<87elsuoeei.fsf_at_altavista.net>...
>> I understand that most if not all solutions are only applicable if
>> you build the RDBMS yourself. Are you aware of any method that would
>> work (possibly in a suboptimal way) with just B-trees ?
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> Recent DBMS innovations have centered on making it possible to extend the
> DBMS without relying on the DBMS vendor engineers. Oracle have, for some
> time, been saying that they have extensible indexing. For example:
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> http://www.oradoc.com/ora817/inter.817/a85337/toc.htm
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> I would check it out. There should be no need to compromise.
>
Extensible indexing shines when you already have some nontraditional algorithm
how to filter records fast. I guess this is a problem in this case.
Received on Sun Jun 10 2001 - 13:49:55 CDT
