A dynamic clustering technique for physical database design

  • Authors:
  • J. M. Chang;K. S. Fu

  • Affiliations:
  • Bell Laboratories, Naperville, Illinois;Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana

  • Venue:
  • SIGMOD '80 Proceedings of the 1980 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
  • Year:
  • 1980

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Abstract

In this study, a technique of performing multiple attribute clustering in dynamic databases has been investigated. We have transformed the problem of performing multiple attribute clustering into a problem of dynamically partitioning the attribute space. The optimal number of partitioning of the attribute space in a dynamic database environment has been analyzed, the partitioning direction is controlled by a discriminator sequence. The design of the discriminator sequence to obtain the optimal partitioning is presented. The selection of the directory attributes has also been discussed. Using the extended K-d tree to direct the partitioning, we have presented the extended K-d tree method. Empirical results have justified the improvement of the performance using the extended K-d tree method, when compared with that using the single attribute clustering or using inverted file method without any clustering index.