Analytic use of bitmap indices

  • Authors:
  • Carlo Dell'Aquila;Ezio Lefons;Filippo Tangorra

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Bari, Bari, Italy;Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Bari, Bari, Italy;Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Bari, Bari, Italy

  • Venue:
  • AIKED'07 Proceedings of the 6th Conference on 6th WSEAS Int. Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Engineering and Data Bases - Volume 6
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We introduce the use of Bitmap indices as very useful tools to represent analytical views of user's data. This approach differs from the conventional definition and use of bitmaps in that it allows us not only to index different domain attribute values, but also to pre-compute (any) legal relational algebra query expression from the user for analytic purposes. The paper discusses deeply the meaning and our use of analytical bitmaps, and shows some applications using a real context for solving integration and analytic problems.