Advanced Database Indexing, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000 Advances in Database Systems Series, Vol. 17

Advanced Database Indexing begins by introducing basic material on storage media, including magnetic disks, RAID systems and tertiary storage such as optical disk and tapes. Typical access methods (e.g. B⁺ trees, dynamic hash files and secondary key retrieval) are also introduced. The remainder of the book discusses recent advances in indexing and access methods for particular database applications. More specifically, issues such as external sorting, file structures for intervals, temporal access methods, spatial and spatio-temporal indexing, image and multimedia indexing, perfect external hashing methods, parallel access methods, concurrency issues in indexing and parallel external sorting are presented for the first time in a single book.
Advanced Database Indexing is an excellent reference for database professionals and may be used as a text for advanced courses on the topic.

1: STORAGE SYSTEMS.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Primary Storage Devices.- 3. Secondary Storage Devices.- 4. Tertiary Storage Devices.- 5. Connecting Storage Together.- 6. Important Issues of Storage Systems.- 7. Alternative Storage Systems.- 8. Future.- 9. Further Reading.- References.- 2: EXTERNAL SORTING.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Run Formation Algorithms.- 3. Merging Algorithms.- 4. Memory Adaptive External Sorting.- 5. Further Reading.- References.- 3: FUNDAMENTAL ACCESS METHODS.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Basic Indices.- 3. External Dynamic Hashing.- 4. Multiattribute Access Methods.- 5. Document Searching.- 6. Further Reading.- References.- 4: ACCESS METHODS FOR INTERVALS.- 1. Introduction.- 2. External Memory Structures for Intervals.- 3. Further Reading.- References.- 5: TEMPORAL ACCESS METHODS.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Transaction-time Indexing.- 3. Bitemporal Indexing.- 4. Further Reading.- References.- 6: SPATIAL ACCESS METHODS.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Spatial Indexing Methods.- 3. Extensions.- 4. Further Reading.- References.- 7: SPATIOTEMPORAL ACCESS METHODS.- 1. Introduction.- 2. The Discrete Spatiotemporal Environment.- 3. The Continuous Spatiotemporal Environment.- 4. Further Reading.- References.- 8: IMAGE AND MULTIMEDIA INDEXING.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Spatial Similarity Retrieval.- 3. Visual Similarity Retrieval.- 4. Extensions.- 5. Further Reading.- References.- 9: EXTERNAL PERFECT HASHING.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Framework and Definitions.- 3. Perfect Hashing and Performance Characteristics.- 4. Dynamic External Perfect Hashing.- 5. Static External Perfect Hashing.- 6. Performance Comparison.- 7. Further Reading.- References.- 10: PARALLEL EXTERNAL SORTING.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Merge-based Parallel Sorting.- 3. Partition-based Parallel Sorting.- 4. Further Reading.- References.- 11: PARALLEL INDEX STRUCTURES.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Declustering Techniques.- 3. Multi-Disk B-trees.- 4. Parallel Linear Quadtrees.- 5. Parallel R-trees.- 6. Parallel S-trees.- 7. Further Reading.- References.- 12: CONCURRENCY ISSUES IN ACCESS METHODS.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Concurrency Control for B+-trees.- 3. Concurrency Control for R-trees.- 4. Concurrency Control for Hash Files.- 5. Further Reading.- References.- 13: LATEST DEVELOPMENTS.- 1. Data Warehouses.- 2. Semistructured Data over the Web.- 3. Main-memory Databases.- 4. Further Reading.- References.- Author Index.- Term Index.- List of Abbreviations.