Abstract: Historically, bitmap indexing has provided an important database capability to accelerate queries. However, only a few database systems have implemented these indexes because of the ...

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Abstract: Improving the query performance is critical in data warehousing and decision support systems. A lot of methods have been proposed by various researches. Indexing the data warehouse is a ...