Module 5: Disk-based Index Structures
  Lecture 21: R-tree Variants
 

                                           

 

 

Insertion
  • If child pointers are not leaf nodes
 
  • Choose subtree with least volume increase (as before)
  • If child pointers are leaf nodes (level leaf-1)
 
  • Choose subtree with least overlap enlargement
 
  • Overlap ( ) = sum of volume( \ ) for all other entries
 
  • because entries need to be checked and each entry,
    overlap to be calculated for siblings