PGCon2008 - Final - we hope

PGCon 2008
The PostgreSQL Conference

Speakers
Enrico Pirozzi
Schedule
Day Talks - second day (2008-05-23)
Room G
Start time 10:00
Duration 01:00
Info
ID 59
Event type lecture
Track Hacker
Language en
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Similarity searches in Postgresql using metric spaces

A way to realize similarity searches between objects as words, sounds, images, etc.. using metric spaces. It is a way to do range queries, nearest neighboor queries and K-nearest neighboor queries.

Includes coverage of the "Edit Distance" contrib module for PostgreSQL, as well as external indexing in C, and ongoing work to construct a special index type for similarity search.