Independence-reducible database schemes

  • Authors:
  • Edward P. F. Chan;Hector J. Hernandez

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Universty of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1;Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the seventh ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART symposium on Principles of database systems
  • Year:
  • 1988

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Abstract

A class of cover embedding database schemes, called independence-reducible, is proposed and is proven to be bounded and algebraic-maintainable, and therefore is highly desirable with respect to query answering and constraint enforcement. This class of schemes is shown to properly contain a superset of all previously known classes of cover embedding BCNF database schemes which are bounded (and constant-time-maintainable). An efficient algorithm is found which recognizes exactly this class of database schemes. Independence-reducible database schemes properly contain a class of constant-time-maintainable database schemes and a condition which characterizes this class of schemes is found, this condition can be tested efficiently. Throughout, it is assumed that a cover of the functional dependencies is embedded in the database scheme in the form of key dependencies.