Multidimensional Access Methods

ACM Computing Surveys

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 170-231

  Gaede, Volker ^a,b   Günther, Oliver ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

H.2.2 Database Management : Physical Design access methods; H.2.4 Database Management : Systems; H.2.8 Database Management : Database Applications spatial databases and GIS

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT DATABASES; MULTIDIMENSIONAL ACCESS METHODS; SPATIAL DATABASES;

INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); ONLINE SEARCHING; QUERY LANGUAGES; SPATIAL VARIABLES CONTROL; WORLD WIDE WEB; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DATA STRUCTURES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE;

DATA STRUCTURES; DATABASE SYSTEMS;

MULTIDIMENSIONAL ACCESS METHODS; SPATIAL DATA MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0032083561     PISSN: 03600300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/280277.280279     Document Type: Article

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