An efficient compression technique for a multi-dimensional index in main memory

Abstract

Recently, in order to retrieve data objects efficiently according to spatial locations in the spatial main memory DBMS, various multi-dimensional index structures for the main memory have been proposed, which minimize failures in cache access by reducing the entry size. However, because the reduction of entry size requires compression based on the MBR (Minimum Bounding Rectangle) of the parent node or the removal of redundant MBR, the cost of MBR reconstruction increases and the efficiency of search is lowered in index update and search. Thus, to reduce the cost of MBR reconstruction, this paper proposed a RSMBR (Relative-Sized MBR) compression technique, which applies the base point of compression differently in case of broad distribution and narrow distribution. In case of broad distribution, compression is made based on the left-bottom point of the extended MBR of the parent node, and in case of narrow distribution, the whole MBR is divided into cells of the same size and compression is made based on the left-bottom point of each cell. In addition, MBR was compressed using a relative coordinate and the MBR size to reduce the cost of search in index search. Lastly, we evaluated the performance of the proposed RSMBR compression technique using real data, and proved its superiority. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.