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  2. Database index - Wikipedia

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    To process this statement without an index the database software must look at the last_name column on every row in the table (this is known as a full table scan). With an index the database simply follows the index data structure (typically a B-tree ) until the Smith entry has been found; this is much less computationally expensive than a full ...

  3. Character large object - Wikipedia

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    It is a collection of character data in a database management system, usually stored in a separate location that is referenced in the table itself. Oracle and IBM Db2 provide a construct explicitly named CLOB, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and the majority of other database systems support some form of the concept, often labeled as text , memo or long character ...

  4. Oracle metadata - Wikipedia

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    Oracle Database provides information about all of the tables, views, columns, and procedures in a database. This information about information is known as metadata. [1] It is stored in two locations: data dictionary tables (accessed via built-in views) and a metadata registry.

  5. Very large database - Wikipedia

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    A very large database, (originally written very large data base) or VLDB, [1] is a database that contains a very large amount of data, so much that it can require specialized architectural, management, processing and maintenance methodologies.

  6. Bitmap index - Wikipedia

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    A bitmap index is a special kind of database index that uses bitmaps.. Bitmap indexes have traditionally been considered to work well for low-cardinality columns, which have a modest number of distinct values, either absolutely, or relative to the number of records that contain the data.

  7. Data orientation - Wikipedia

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    The two most common representations are column-oriented (columnar format) and row-oriented (row format). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The choice of data orientation is a trade-off and an architectural decision in databases , query engines, and numerical simulations. [ 1 ]

  8. Oracle Cloud File System - Wikipedia

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    CloudFS [3] is designed to scale to billions of files and supports very large file and file systems sizes (up to exabytes of storage). CloudFS [4] is built on top of Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) and Oracle clustering technologies to provide cluster volume and file services to clients. ADVM and ACFS leverage ASM striping, mirroring ...

  9. Inverted index - Wikipedia

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    The purpose of an inverted index is to allow fast full-text searches, at a cost of increased processing when a document is added to the database. [2] The inverted file may be the database file itself, rather than its index. It is the most popular data structure used in document retrieval systems, [3] used on a large scale for example in search ...