Index Structures for Data Warehouses

• Main Author: Jürgens, Marcus (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2002.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2002.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1859
• Subjects: Information storage and retrieval.; Database management.; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Database Management.

Data warehouses differ significantly from traditional transaction-oriented operational database applications. Indexing techniques and index structures applied in the transaction-oriented context are not feasible for data warehouses. This work develops specific heuristic indexing techniques which pro...

Table of Contents:

• State of the Art of Data Warehouse Research
• Data Storage and Index Structures
• Mixed Integer Problems for Finding Optimal Tree-Based Index Structures
• Aggregated Data in Tree-Based Index Structures
• Performance Models for Tree-Based Index Structures
• Techniques for Comparing Index Structures
• Conclusion and Outlook.