File organization using composite perfect hashing

  • Authors:
  • M. V. Ramakrishna;P.-:1V Larson

  • Affiliations:
  • Michigan State Univ., East Lansing;Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
  • Year:
  • 1989

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Abstract

Perfect hashing refers to hashing with no overflows. We propose and analyze a composite perfect hashing scheme for large external files. The scheme guarantees retrieval of any record in a single disk access. Insertions and deletions are simple, and the file size may vary considerably without adversely affecting the performance. A simple variant of the scheme supports efficient range searches in addition to being a completely dynamic file organization scheme. These advantages are achieved at the cost of a small amount of additional internal storage and increased cost of insertions.