Divide-and-Conquer Algorithm for Computing Set Containment Joins (original) (raw)

Melnik, Sergey and Garcia-Molina, Hector (2002) Divide-and-Conquer Algorithm for Computing Set Containment Joins. In: 8th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT 2002), March 25-27, 2002, Prague, Czech Republic.

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Abstract

A set containment join is a join between set-valued attributes of two relations, whose join condition is specified using the subset operator. Set containment joins are used in a variety of database applications. In this paper, we propose two partitioning algorithms for computing set containment joins efficiently. The first algorithm called Lattice Set Join is a partitioning-based version of an existing main-memory algorithm. The second one is a novel algorithm that we call Divide-and-Conquer Set Join. We show that the divide-and-conquer approach outperforms previously suggested algorithms over a wide range of data sets. We present a detailed analysis of the algorithms and describe their behavior in an implemented testbed.

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