| Affiliation: | Institute of Electronics and Information Engineering, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, 123 University Road, Section 3, Touliu, Yunlin, 640, Taiwan, ROC |
| Abstract: | An object-oriented database (OODB) has been becoming more important in recent years. It can deal with a large amount of complex objects and relationships that relational database (RDB) systems cannot handle well. However, the retrieval and update performance of an OODB depends on indexing techniques. In this paper, we study the indexing techniques on OODBs, based on an inheritance hierarchy and an aggregation hierarchy. Given the access probability and the size of each class, we propose a cost function to evaluate the gain of building an index on an inheritance hierarchy. For an aggregation hierarchy, we use a path-catenation technique to evaluate how to build index files on classes. Through some experiments, we found our methods have better retrieval performance than most ones proposed before. |
