Holistic indexing
Eleni Petraki · 2012
Proper physical design is a momentous issue for the performance of modern database systems and applications. Nowadays, a growing amount of applications require the execution of dynamic and exploratory workloads with unpredictable characteristics that change over time, e.g., social networks, scientific databases and multimedia databases. In addition, as most modern applications move to the big data era, investing time and resources in building the wrong set of indexes over large collections of data can severely affect performance.