Chapter 14: Indexing Flashcards

1
Q

Search Key

A

attribute to set of attributes used to look up records in a
file

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2
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index file

A

contains index entries

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3
Q

Ordered indices

A

search keys are stored in sorted order

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4
Q

Hash indices

A

search keys are distributed uniformly across
“buckets” using a “hash function”

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