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Column Stores as an IR Prototyping Tool
. We make the suggestion that instead of implementing custom
index structures and query evaluation algorithms, IR researchers should
simply store document representations in a column-oriented relational
database and write ranking models using SQL. For rapid prototyping, this
is particularly advantageous since researchers can explore new ranking
functions and features by simply issuing SQL queries, without needing to
write imperative code. We demonstrate the feasibility of this approach
by an implementation of conjunctive BM25 using MonetDB on a part of
the ClueWeb12 collection
Column Stores as an IR Prototyping Tool
textabstract. We make the suggestion that instead of implementing custom
index structures and query evaluation algorithms, IR researchers should
simply store document representations in a column-oriented relational
database and write ranking models using SQL. For rapid prototyping, this
is particularly advantageous since researchers can explore new ranking
functions and features by simply issuing SQL queries, without needing to
write imperative code. We demonstrate the feasibility of this approach
by an implementation of conjunctive BM25 using MonetDB on a part of
the ClueWeb12 collection