On Top-k Search with No Random Access Using Small Memory

  • Authors:
  • Peter Gurský;Peter Vojtáš

  • Affiliations:
  • University of P.J.Šafárik, Košice, Slovakia;Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

  • Venue:
  • ADBIS '08 Proceedings of the 12th East European conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Methods of top-ksearch with no random access can be used to find kbest objects using sorted lists of attributes that can be read only by sorted access. Such methods usually need to work with a large number of candidates during the computation. In this paper we propose new methods of no random access top-ksearch that can be used to compute kbest objects using small memory. We present results of experiments showing improvement in speed depending on ratio of memory size and data size. Our system outperforms other also when the total number of attributes is much bigger than number of query attributes (varying with user).