Storage and access in relational data bases

  • Authors:
  • M. W. Blasgen;K. P. Eswaran

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • IBM Systems Journal
  • Year:
  • 1977

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Abstract

A model of storage and access to a relational data base is presented. Using this model, four techniques for evaluating a general relational query that involves the operations of projection, restriction, and join are compared on the basis of cost of accessing secondary storage. The techniques are compared numerically and analytically for various values of important parameters. Results indicate that physical clustering of logically adjacent items is a critical performance parameter. In the absence of such clustering, methods that depend on sorting the records themselves seem to be the algorithm of choice.