Managing gigabytes

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1. lazamarJul 2024
   Thanks for the link. I was motivated to write the post after reading Moffat’s book ‘Managing Gigabytes’. A pearl from the 90’s.

   The authors mention this technique in the second edition.

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2. DamonHDNov 2022
   Managing Gigabytes

   https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Managing_Gigabytes.ht...

   Old but good!

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3. CoolestBeansNov 2022
   Came here to recommend Managing Gigabytes as well. People these days are managing far more than gigabytes but the fundamental ideas remain useful.
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4. sanxiynOct 2022
   If you want a book, Managing Gigabytes is still pretty good.
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5. skoczkoAug 2022
   If by a "search engine" you mean a tool to index and retrieve documents (essentially what the terms mean in the traditional Information Retrieval, e.g Lucene, SOLR, Elastic) then this is a pretty good on the subject that taught me a lot:

   https://www.amazon.com/Managing-Gigabytes-Compressing-Multim...

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6. injinjMay 2022
   I didn't see binary interpolative coding (BIC) referenced. It is one of my favorites introduced to me by the book "Managing Gigabytes" by Moffett and Bell [1]. It has great compression ratio for sequences and is commonly used in inverted indexes.

   There is neat implementation [2] and technical paper [3] by Giulio Ermanno Pibiri, which I just found today by looking for it.

   [1] https://people.eng.unimelb.edu.au/ammoffat/mg/

   [2] https://github.com/jermp/interpolative_coding

   [3] http://pages.di.unipi.it/pibiri/papers/BIC.pdf

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