Basic Concepts Ordered Indices B+-Tree Index Files B-Tree Index Files Static Hashing Dynamic Hashing Comparison of Ordered Indexing and Hashing Index Definition in SQL Multiple-Key Access
Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Databases Distributed Data Storage Distributed Transactions Commit Protocols Concurrency Control in Distributed Databases Availability Distributed Query Processing Heterogeneous Distributed Databases Directory Systems
▪ Relevance Ranking Using Terms ▪ Relevance Using Hyperlinks ▪ Synonyms., Homonyms, and Ontologies ▪ Indexing of Documents ▪ Measuring Retrieval Effectiveness ▪ Web Search Engines ▪ Information Retrieval and Structured Data ▪ Directories
▪ Structure of XML Data ▪ XML Document Schema ▪ Querying and Transformation ▪ Application Program Interfaces to XML ▪ Storage of XML Data ▪ XML Applications