Additional information

Full Title

Index Structures for Data Warehouses

Author(s)

Marcus Jürgens

Edition
ISBN

9783540459354, 9783540433682

Publisher

Springer

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

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 process range queries on aggregated data more efficiently than those traditionally used in transaction-oriented systems. The book presents chapters on: – the state of the art in data warehouse research – data storage and index structures – finding optimal tree-based index structures – aggregated data in tree-based index structures – performance models for tree-based index structures – and techniques for comparing index structures.