NRank: A Unified Platform Independent Approach for Top-K Algorithms

Martin Čech, Jaroslav Pokorný

2012

Abstract

Due to increasing capacity of storage devices and speed of computer networks during last years, it is still more required to sort and search data effectively. A query result containing thousands of rows from a relational database is usually useless and unreadable. In that situation, users may prefer to define constraints and sorting priorities in the query, and see only several top rows from the result. This paper deals with top-k queries problems, extension of relational algebra by new operators and their implementation in a database system. It focuses on optimization of operations join and sort. The work also includes implementation and comparison of some algorithms in standalone .NET library NRank.

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Čech M. and Pokorný J. (2012). NRank: A Unified Platform Independent Approach for Top-K Algorithms . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: DATA, ISBN 978-989-8565-18-1, pages 111-116. DOI: 10.5220/0003966901110116


in Bibtex Style

@conference{data12,
author={Martin Čech and Jaroslav Pokorný},
title={NRank: A Unified Platform Independent Approach for Top-K Algorithms},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: DATA,},
year={2012},
pages={111-116},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003966901110116},
isbn={978-989-8565-18-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: DATA,
TI - NRank: A Unified Platform Independent Approach for Top-K Algorithms
SN - 978-989-8565-18-1
AU - Čech M.
AU - Pokorný J.
PY - 2012
SP - 111
EP - 116
DO - 10.5220/0003966901110116