Using Space-Filling Curves for Multi-dimensional Indexing

  • Authors:
  • Jonathan K. Lawder;Peter J. H. King

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • BNCOD 17 Proceedings of the 17th British National Conferenc on Databases: Advances in Databases
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

This paper presents and discusses a radically different approach to multi-dimensional indexing based on the concept of the space-filling curve. It reports the novel algorithms which had to be developed to create the first actual implementation of a system based on this approach, on some comparative performance tests, and on its actual use within the TriStarp Group at Birkbeck to provide a Triple Store repository. An important result that goes beyond this requirement, however, is that the performance improvement over the Grid File is greater the higher the dimension.