In this paper, two different structures for inverted files are analyzed and compared, when the relational join operation is taken into account. The structures are called shared and separate inverted files. The results are given of some experiments which show that the shared inverted organization is always advantageous when the inverted files are not sorted and is almost always advantageous when the files are sorted.
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