On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 01:37:42PM +0200, Gabriel Welsche wrote: > Hello, > > does anybody consider supporting bitmap indices? > > An indexing software called FastBit was integrated to MonetDB > (http://crd.lbl.gov/~kewu/ps/LBNL-61768.pdf) > and some benchmarks show that there were serious improvements concerning > combined numerical and text queries (offers up to 10 times better > performance then MonetDB without FastBit).
We plan to look at the code from the FastBit group. They are working hard to make their code available in open source. Than the MonetDB team will have a look at their efforts integrating that into MonetDB/SQL. We hopefully get a maintainable patch for MonetDB out of this. Niels > > Gabriel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > Monetdb-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/monetdb-developers -- Niels Nes, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) Kruislaan 413, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands room C0.02, phone ++31 20 592-4098, fax ++31 20 592-4312 url: http://www.cwi.nl/~niels e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Monetdb-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/monetdb-developers
