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The sheer increase in volume of RDF data demands efficient solutions for the triple indexing problem, that is devising a compressed data structure to compactly represent RDF triples by guaranteeing, at the same time, fast pattern matching…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Raffaele Perego , Giulio Ermanno Pibiri , Rossano Venturini

In pattern matching on strings, a locate query asks for an enumeration of all the occurrences of a given pattern in a given text. The r-index [Gagie et al., 2018] is a recently presented compressed self index that stores the text and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Patrick Dinklage , Johannes Fischer , Lukas Nalbach , Jan Zumbrink

The Suffix Array is a classic text index enabling on-line pattern matching queries via simple binary search. The main drawback of the Suffix Array is that it takes linear space in the text's length, even if the text itself is extremely…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Davide Cenzato , Lore Depuydt , Travis Gagie , Sung-Hwan Kim , Giovanni Manzini , Francisco Olivares , Nicola Prezza

In many real-world database systems, a large fraction of the data is represented by strings: sequences of letters over some alphabet. This is because strings can easily encode data arising from different sources. It is often crucial to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Lorraine A. K. Ayad , Grigorios Loukides , Solon P. Pissis

Suppose that we are given a string $s$ of length $n$ over an alphabet $\{0,1,\ldots,n^{O(1)}\}$ and $\delta$ is the string complexity of $s$, a known compression measure. We describe an index on $s$ with $O(\delta\log\frac{n}{\delta})$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Dmitry Kosolobov

The $r$-index (Gagie et al., JACM 2020) represented a breakthrough in compressed indexing of repetitive text collections, outperforming its alternatives by orders of magnitude. Its space usage, $\mathcal{O}(r)$ where $r$ is the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Dustin Cobas , Travis Gagie , Gonzalo Navarro

Tries are popular data structures for storing a set of strings, where common prefixes are represented by common root-to-node paths. Over fifty years of usage have produced many variants and implementations to overcome some of their…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-12-06 Roberto Grossi , Giuseppe Ottaviano

In the last decades, the necessity to process massive amounts of textual data fueled the development of compressed text indexes: data structures efficiently answering queries on a given text while occupying space proportional to the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Dominik Kempa , Tomasz Kociumaka

We present a simple adaptation of the Lempel Ziv 78' (LZ78) compression scheme ({\em IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 1978}) that supports efficient random access to the input string. Namely, given query access to the compressed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-01-14 Akashnil Dutta , Reut Levi , Dana Ron , Ronitt Rubinfeld

We study the approximate string matching and regular expression matching problem for the case when the text to be searched is compressed with the Ziv-Lempel adaptive dictionary compression schemes. We present a time-space trade-off that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Philip Bille , Rolf Fagerberg , Inge Li Goertz

Motivated by the imminent growth of massive, highly redundant genomic databases, we study the problem of compressing a string database while simultaneously supporting fast random access, substring extraction and pattern matching to the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-11-01 Travis Gagie , Paweł Gawrychowski , Christopher Hoobin , Simon J. Puglisi

At the present scenario of the internet, there exist many optimization techniques to improve the Web speed but almost expensive in terms of bandwidth. So after a long investigation on different techniques to compress the data without any…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-20 Hemant Kumar Saini , Satpal Singh Kushwaha , C. Rama Krishna

Given a static reference string $R$ and a source string $S$, a relative compression of $S$ with respect to $R$ is an encoding of $S$ as a sequence of references to substrings of $R$. Relative compression schemes are a classic model of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-09-19 Philip Bille , Patrick Hagge Cording , Inge Li Gørtz , Frederik Rye Skjoldjensen , Hjalte Wedel Vildhøj , Søren Vind

The suffix tree is arguably the most fundamental data structure on strings: introduced by Weiner (SWAT 1973) and McCreight (JACM 1976), it allows solving a myriad of computational problems on strings in linear time. Motivated by its large…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Ruben Becker , Davide Cenzato , Travis Gagie , Sung-Hwan Kim , Ragnar Groot Koerkamp , Giovanni Manzini , Nicola Prezza

In the dynamic indexing problem, we must maintain a changing collection of text documents so that we can efficiently support insertions, deletions, and pattern matching queries. We are especially interested in developing efficient data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-23 J. Ian Munro , Yakov Nekrich , Jeffrey Scott Vitter

The data structure at the core of large-scale search engines is the inverted index, which is essentially a collection of sorted integer sequences called inverted lists. Because of the many documents indexed by such engines and stringent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Giulio Ermanno Pibiri , Rossano Venturini

Most of the fastest-growing string collections today are repetitive, that is, most of the constituent documents are similar to many others. As these collections keep growing, a key approach to handling them is to exploit their…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-05-22 Travis Gagie , Aleksi Hartikainen , Kalle Karhu , Juha Kärkkäinen , Gonzalo Navarro , Simon J. Puglisi , Jouni Sirén

The well-known dictionary-based algorithms of the Lempel-Ziv (LZ) 77 family are the basis of several universal lossless compression techniques. These algorithms are asymmetric regarding encoding/decoding time and memory requirements, with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-12-31 Artur Ferreira , Arlindo Oliveira , Mario Figueiredo

Packing several characters into one computer word is a simple and natural way to compress the representation of a string and to speed up its processing. Exploiting this idea, we propose an index for a packed string, based on a {\em sparse…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Roman Kolpakov , Gregory Kucherov , Tatiana Starikovskaya

Random access to highly compressed strings -- represented by straight-line programs or Lempel-Ziv parses, for example -- is a well-studied topic. Random access to such strings in strongly sublogarithmic time is impossible in the worst case,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Ferdinando Cicalese , Zsuzsanna Lipták , Travis Gagie , Gonzalo Navarro , Nicola Prezza , Cristian Urbina