Two simple full-text indexes based on the suffix array

Abstract: We propose two suffix array inspired full-text indexes. One, called SA-hash, augments the suffix array with a hash table to speed up pattern searches due to significantly narrowed search interval before the binary search phase. The other, called FBCSA, is a compact data structure, similar to M{\"a}kinen's compact suffix array, but working on fixed sized blocks. Experiments on the Pizza~&~Chili 200\,MB datasets show that SA-hash is about 2--3 times faster in pattern searches (counts) than the standard suffix array, for the price of requiring $0.2n-1.1n$ bytes of extra space, where $n$ is the text length, and setting a minimum pattern length. FBCSA is relatively fast in single cell accesses (a few times faster than related indexes at about the same or better compression), but not competitive if many consecutive cells are to be extracted. Still, for the task of extracting, e.g., 10 successive cells its time-space relation remains attractive.