Kevin Chen

EECS Department
University of California, Berkeley
Technical Report No. UCB/CSD-04-1303
January 2004

http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2004/CSD-04-1303.pdf

The Flamenco system is a web search interface that allows users to browse through large data sets using predefined hierarchical faceted metadata. It is built on top of a conventional relational database and currently scales to collections of several tens of thousands of items. In the current implementation, the system translates each user query into multiple SQL group-by commands in order to obtain query preview information for possible future queries. These group-by's take up a significant fraction of the query processing time. In this note, we describe an optimization that allows us to speed up the group-by computations dramatically. Our ideas have some similarity to the work of Beyer and Ramakrishnan on computing iceberg data cubes.

BibTeX citation:

@techreport{Chen:CSD-04-1303,
    Author = {Chen, Kevin},
    Title = {Computing Query Previews in the Flamenco System},
    Institution = {EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley},
    Year = {2004},
    Month = {Jan},
    URL = {http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2004/5369.html},
    Number = {UCB/CSD-04-1303},
    Abstract = {The Flamenco system is a web search interface that allows users to browse through large data sets using predefined hierarchical faceted metadata. It is built on top of a conventional relational database and currently scales to collections of several tens of thousands of items. In the current implementation, the system translates each user query into multiple SQL group-by commands in order to obtain query preview information for possible future queries. These group-by's take up a significant fraction of the query processing time. In this note, we describe an optimization that allows us to speed up the group-by computations dramatically. Our ideas have some similarity to the work of Beyer and Ramakrishnan on computing iceberg data cubes.}
}

EndNote citation:

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%I EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley
%D 2004
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