Re: k-neighbourhood search in databases

Wow, custom solution for 2008 still much faster Denali 2011  solution.
Also, what's about not spatial data types ? 
In our approach, we can provide knn for any datatype, which has GiST index 
and distance method.

Oleg
On Fri, 8 Apr 2011, Jeremiah Peschka wrote:

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> On 4/8/11 5:21 AM, Oleg Bartunov wrote:
>> Hi there,
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>> I'm interesting if other databases provides built-in effective knn
>> search ? Google didn't help me.
> SQL Server provides some knn search functionality[1] with enhancements coming this November in SQL 11[2].
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> [1]: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/isaac/archive/2008/10/23/nearest-neighbors.aspx
> [2]: http://www.sqlskills.com/BLOGS/BOBB/post/The-nearest-neighbor-optimization-in-SQL-Server-Denali.aspx
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    Regards,        Oleg
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