Linear hashing: a new tool for file and table addressing

  • Authors:
  • Witold Litwin

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • VLDB '80 Proceedings of the sixth international conference on Very Large Data Bases - Volume 6
  • Year:
  • 1980

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Abstract

Linear hashing is a hashing in which the address space may grow or shrink dynamically. A file or a table may then support any number of insertions or deletions without access or memory load performance deterioration. A record in the file is, in general, found in one access, while the load may stay practically constant up to 90 %. A record in a table is found in a mean of 1.7 accesses, while the load is constantly 80 %. No other algorithms attaining such a performance are known.