Answering Queries with Aggregation Using Views
Divesh Srivastava, Shaul Dar, H. V. Jagadish, Alon Y. Levy · 1996
We present novel algorithms for the problem of using materialized views to compute answers to SQL queries with grouping and aggregation, in the presence of multiset tables. In addition to its obvious potential in query optimization, this problem is important in many applications, such as data warehousing, very large transaction recording systems, global information systems and mobile computing, where access to local or cached materialized views may be cheaper than access to the underlying database. Our contributions are the following: First, we show that in the case where the query has grouping and aggregation but the views do not, a view is usable in answering a query only if there is an isomorphism between the view and a portion of the query. Second, when the views also have grouping and aggregation we identify conditions under which the aggregation information present in a view is sufficient to perform the aggregation computations required in the query. The algorithms we describe fo...