Efficient Processing of Multipoints MAX/MIN Queries in OLAP Environment
Woosuk Yang, Myoung–Ho Kim · 2000
Online analytical processing (OLAP) systems are introduced to support decision support systems. Many researches focussed on efficient processing of aggregate functions that usually occur in OLAP queries. However, most previous researches in the literature are deal with the situation in which aggregate functions arc applied to all the values in a given range. Since those approaches utilize characteristic of aggregate functions applied to a range, they are difficult to be applied to a muitipoint query that is a query considering only some points in a given range. In this paper, we propose the Ranking Index and the flanking Decision Tree (RDT) for efficient evaluation of multipoints MAX/MIN queries. The ranking of possible MAX/MIN values are computed with RDT Then MAX/MIN values can be acquired from the Ranking Index. We show through experiments that our method provides high performance in most situations. In other words, the proposed method is robust as well as efficient. A single common set of precomputed results for both MAX and MIN values is another advantage of the proposed method.