Module 5: Disk-based Index Structures
  Lecture 26: Pyramid Technique and VA-files
 

                                            

 

 

Searching
  • For point queries, check candidates for true match
  • Hyper-dimensional range queries
 
  • Transform one -dimensional range query to one-dimensional range queries, one for each pyramid
 
  • Difficult to find exact ranges
 
  • For pyramid , range becomes
 
  • For pyramid , range becomes
 
  • Requires further refinement
 
  • If true answer set is , and queries produce , then but not vice versa