The role of compression in document databases

  • Authors:
  • Alistair Moffat;Justin Zobel;Ian H. Witten;Timothy C. Bell

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGWEB Newsletter
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

The extensive use of compression means that the MG retrieval system is capable of managing multi-gigabyte document collections in an effective and efficient manner. This article reviews the main features of MG and notes its relevance to large hypermedia collections.