An algebra of quotient relations

  • Authors:
  • Antonio L. Furtado;Larry Kerschberg

  • Affiliations:
  • Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;University of Maryland, College Park, MD

  • Venue:
  • SIGMOD '77 Proceedings of the 1977 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
  • Year:
  • 1977

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Abstract

An algebra which operates on partitioned relations is developed. Relation partitioning is achieved by defining equivalence relations on n-ary relations. It is shown that the algebra is as powerful as the original relational algebra, having the advantage of a set-processing capability. This feature provides both greater flexibility in query specification and efficient query processing.