by Yannis Manolopoulos (Author), Yannis Theodoridis (Author), Vassilis Tsotras (Author)
Introduces the basic material on storage media, including magnetic disks, RAID systems and tertiary storage such as optical disk and tapes. This book also introduces typical access methods (B+ trees, dynamic hash files and secondary key retrieval). It discusses advances in indexing and access methods for particular database applications.
Format: Illustrated
Pages: 316
Edition: 2000
Publisher: Springer
Published: 30 Nov 1999
ISBN 10: 0792377168
ISBN 13: 9780792377160