News tagged with massive database

New research provides clear answer to debate on dinosaur posture

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research published today (22nd February) provides, for the first time, a clear answer to the debate as to whether Triceratops and other extinct creatures took on a more mammal-like or more ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (18) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Novel high-performance hybrid system for semantic factoring of graph databases

Imagine trying to analyze all of the English entries in Wikipedia. Now imagine you've got 20 times as much information. That's the challenge scientists face when working with gigabyte data sets. Scientists ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Shrinking 'ridiculous' data sets to manageable size

Two decades ago a renowned statistician described a computer data set of 1 billion bytes as "huge" and 10 trillion bytes as "ridiculous."

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 14, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Google digging deeper to improve search results (Update)

(AP) -- Google Inc. is about to add more features to its already dominant Internet search engine - and some of the changes could give Web surfers less reason to click through to other sites. That scenario ...

Technology / Internet

created May 13, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2