A review of recent work on multi-attribute access methods

  • Authors:
  • David Lomet

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGMOD Record
  • Year:
  • 1992

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Abstract

Most database systems provide database designers with single attribute indexing capability via some form of B+tree. Multi-attribute search structures are rare, and are mostly found in systems specialized to some more narrow application area, e.g. geographic databases. The reason is that no multi-attirbute search structure has been demonstrated, with high confidence. Multi-attribute search is an active area of research. This paper reviews the state of this field and some of the difficult problems, and reviews some recent notable papers.