Advanced Database Indexing

1: STORAGE SYSTEMS.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Primary Storage Devices.- 3. Secondary Storage Devices.- 4. Tertiary Storage Devices.- 5. Connecting Storage Together.- 6. Important Issues of Storage Systems.- 7. Alternative Storage Systems.- 8. Future.- 9. Further Reading.- References.- 2: EXTERNAL SORTING.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Run Formation Algorithms.- 3. Merging Algorithms.- 4. Memory Adaptive External Sorting.- 5. Further Reading.- References.- 3: FUNDAMENTAL ACCESS METHODS.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Basic Indices.- 3. External Dynamic Hashing.- 4. Multiattribute Access Methods.- 5. Document Searching.- 6. Further Reading.- References.- 4: ACCESS METHODS FOR INTERVALS.- 1. Introduction.- 2. External Memory Structures for Intervals.- 3. Further Reading.- References.- 5: TEMPORAL ACCESS METHODS.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Transaction-time Indexing.- 3. Bitemporal Indexing.- 4. Further Reading.- References.- 6: SPATIAL ACCESS METHODS.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Spatial Indexing Methods.- 3. Extensions.- 4. Further Reading.- References.- 7: SPATIOTEMPORAL ACCESS METHODS.- 1. Introduction.- 2. The Discrete Spatiotemporal Environment.- 3. The Continuous Spatiotemporal Environment.- 4. Further Reading.- References.- 8: IMAGE AND MULTIMEDIA INDEXING.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Spatial Similarity Retrieval.- 3. Visual Similarity Retrieval.- 4. Extensions.- 5. Further Reading.- References.- 9: EXTERNAL PERFECT HASHING.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Framework and Definitions.- 3. Perfect Hashing and Performance Characteristics.- 4. Dynamic External Perfect Hashing.- 5. Static External Perfect Hashing.- 6. Performance Comparison.- 7. Further Reading.- References.- 10: PARALLEL EXTERNAL SORTING.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Merge-based Parallel Sorting.- 3. Partition-based Parallel Sorting.- 4. Further Reading.- References.- 11: PARALLEL INDEX STRUCTURES.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Declustering Techniques.- 3. Multi-Disk B-trees.- 4. Parallel Linear Quadtrees.- 5. Parallel R-trees.- 6. Parallel S-trees.- 7. Further Reading.- References.- 12: CONCURRENCY ISSUES IN ACCESS METHODS.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Concurrency Control for B+-trees.- 3. Concurrency Control for R-trees.- 4. Concurrency Control for Hash Files.- 5. Further Reading.- References.- 13: LATEST DEVELOPMENTS.- 1. Data Warehouses.- 2. Semistructured Data over the Web.- 3. Main-memory Databases.- 4. Further Reading.- References.- Author Index.- Term Index.- List of Abbreviations.