An extendible array based implementation of relational tables for multi dimensional databases

  • Authors:
  • K. M. Azharul Hasan;Masayuki Kuroda;Naoki Azuma;Tatsuo Tsuji;Ken Higuchi

  • Affiliations:
  • Graduate School of Engineering, University of Fukui, Fukui shi, Japan;Graduate School of Engineering, University of Fukui, Fukui shi, Japan;Graduate School of Engineering, University of Fukui, Fukui shi, Japan;Graduate School of Engineering, University of Fukui, Fukui shi, Japan;Graduate School of Engineering, University of Fukui, Fukui shi, Japan

  • Venue:
  • DaWaK'05 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

A new implementation scheme for relational tables in multidimensional databases is proposed and evaluated. The scheme implements a relational table by employing a multidimensional array. Using multidimensional arrays provides many advantages, however suffers from some problems. In our scheme, these problems are solved by an efficient scheme of record encoding based on the notion of extendible array. Our scheme exhibits good performance in space and time costs compared with conventional implementation.