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, ...

Aerospike, Inc., the real-time database for mission-critical use cases and workloads, is debuting new expression indexes—or a method of indexing that simplifies application code—that supercharge query ...

As with everything, there are trade-offs when it comes to indexes. That said, this discussion focuses on query optimi­zation by looking at table indexes or the lack thereof. A sign of a good database ...