Indexing set-valued attributes with a multi-level extendible hashing scheme

  • Authors:
  • Sven Helmer;Robin Aly;Thomas Neumann;Guido Moerkotte

  • Affiliations:
  • University of London, United Kingdom;University of Twente, The Netherlands;Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Germany;University of Mannheim, Germany

  • Venue:
  • DEXA'07 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We present an access method for set-valued attributes that is based on a multi-level extendible hashing scheme. This scheme avoids exponential directory growth for skewed data and thus generates a much smaller number of subqueries for query sets (so far fast-growing directories have prohibited hash-based index structures for set-valued retrieval). We demonstrate the advantages of our scheme over regular extendible hashing both analytically and experimentally. We also implemented a prototype and briefly summarize the results of our experimental evaluation.