How to Avoid Building DataBlades(r) That Know the Value of Everything and the Cost of Nothing

  • Authors:
  • Paul M. Aoki

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • SSDBM '99 Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

The object-relational database management system (ORDBMS) offers many potential benefits for scientific, multimedia and financial applications. However, work remains in the integration of domain-specific class libraries into ORDBMS query processing. A major problem is that the standard mechanisms for query selectivity estimation, taken from relational database systems, rely on properties specific to the standard data types; creation of new mechanisms remains extremely difficult because the software interfaces provided by vendors are relatively low-level. In this paper, we discuss extensions of the generalized search tree, or GiST, to support a higher-level but less type-specific approach. Specifically, we discuss the computation of selectivity estimates with confidence intervals using a variety of index-based approaches and present results from an experimental comparison of these methods with several estimators from the literature.