Yes, I've read it and have corresponded with Paolo Ferragina.
Most interesting is String B-Tree data structure
(http://butirro.di.unipi.it/~ferrax/papers.html)
I hope we could try something in next year, this year we're too busy.
Oleg
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Lincoln Yeoh wrote:
> Has anyone seen this?
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> http://butirro.di.unipi.it/~ferrax/fmindex/index.html
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> Involves using the Burrows-Wheeler transform and suffix arrays.
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> Seems interesting. Not sure about licensing/patent issues though. Still, a
> different method using similar ideas might work better for RDBMS situations.
>
> Cheerio,
> Link.
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Oleg
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