Making big data manageable

Here is the paper: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;papers.nips.cc&#x2F;paper&#x2F;6596-dimensionality-reduction-of-massive-sparse-datasets-using-coresets.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;papers.nips.cc&#x2F;paper&#x2F;6596-dimensionality-reduction-o...</a>

This is neat. I bet if you use a hypercircle technique then you could project wikipedia articles into a GiST or BallTree or similar n dimensional tree structure. Then search can be done by projecting a query into the hypercircle and returning results close by.

This sounds like something that could be done with a materialized view, or am I missing something?

But then it is not big data anymore!

I know these people! They are amazing :)