| |  | Marchionini, Gary | Exploratory search: from finding to understanding read moreAbstract: From the earliest days of computers, search has been a fundamental application that has driven research and development. For example, a paper published in the inaugural year of the IBM journal 36 years ago outlined challenges of text retrieval that continue to the present [4] . Today's data storage and retrieval applications range from database systems that manage the bulk of the world's structured data to Web search engines that provide access to petabytes of text and multimedia data. As computers have become consumer products and the Internet has become a mass medium, searching the Web has become a daily activity for everyone from children to research scientists. | 2006 |
| |  | | A Comparison of Oracle Berkeley DB and Relational Database Management Systems read moreAbstract: Oracle is a well-known leader in the database industry. Oracle’s embeddable database engine, Oracle Berkeley DB, is very different from the company’s relational database products. Berkeley DB offers software developers some key advantages over relational databases, the file system, and homegrown
storage systems for a large class of
applications | 2006 |