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On B-Tree Indices for Skewed Distributions.

Christos Faloutsos, H. V. Jagadish: On B-Tree Indices for Skewed Distributions. VLDB 1992: 363-374
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  author    = {Christos Faloutsos and
               H. V. Jagadish},
  editor    = {Li-Yan Yuan},
  title     = {On B-Tree Indices for Skewed Distributions},
  booktitle = {18th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, August
               23-27, 1992, Vancouver, Canada, Proceedings},
  publisher = {Morgan Kaufmann},
  year      = {1992},
  isbn      = {1-55860-151-1},
  pages     = {363-374},
  ee        = {db/conf/vldb/FaloutsosJ92.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/vldb/92},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}
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Abstract

It is often the case that the set of values over which a B-Tree is constructed has a skewed distribution. We present a geometric growth technique to manage postings records in such cases, and show that the performance of such a technique is better than that of a straightforward fixed length postings list: It guarantees 1 disk access on searching, and it takes a fraction of the space that its competitor requires (55% to 66%, in our experiments).

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Li-Yan Yuan (Ed.): 18th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, August 23-27, 1992, Vancouver, Canada, Proceedings. Morgan Kaufmann 1992, ISBN 1-55860-151-1
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Referenced by

  1. Christopher R. Palmer, Christos Faloutsos: Density Biased Sampling: An Improved Method for Data Mining and Clustering. SIGMOD Conference 2000: 82-92
  2. Narayanan Shivakumar, Hector Garcia-Molina: Wave-Indices: Indexing Evolving Databases. SIGMOD Conference 1997: 381-392
  3. Christos Faloutsos, Yossi Matias, Abraham Silberschatz: Modeling Skewed Distribution Using Multifractals and the `80-20' Law. VLDB 1996: 307-317
  4. Alberto Belussi, Christos Faloutsos: Estimating the Selectivity of Spatial Queries Using the `Correlation' Fractal Dimension. VLDB 1995: 299-310
  5. Yannis E. Ioannidis, Viswanath Poosala: Balancing Histogram Optimality and Practicality for Query Result Size Estimation. SIGMOD Conference 1995: 233-244
  6. Praveen Seshadri, Arun N. Swami: Generalized Partial Indexes. ICDE 1995: 420-427
  7. Eric W. Brown, James P. Callan, W. Bruce Croft: Fast Incremental Indexing for Full-Text Information Retrieval. VLDB 1994: 192-202
  8. Anthony Tomasic, Hector Garcia-Molina, Kurt A. Shoens: Incremental Updates of Inverted Lists for Text Document Retrieval. SIGMOD Conference 1994: 289-300
  9. Christos Faloutsos, Ibrahim Kamel: Beyond Uniformity and Independence: Analysis of R-trees Using the Concept of Fractal Dimension. PODS 1994: 4-13
  10. Arun N. Swami, K. Bernhard Schiefer: On the Estimation of Join Result Sizes. EDBT 1994: 287-300
  11. Kurt A. Shoens, Allen Luniewski, Peter M. Schwarz, James W. Stamos, Joachim Thomas II: The Rufus System: Information Organization for Semi-Structured Data. VLDB 1993: 97-107
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