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File Structures

Buch | Hardcover
590 Seiten
1992 | 2nd edition
Pearson (Verlag)
978-0-201-55713-8 (ISBN)
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This book provides the conceptual tools to build file structures that can be quickly and efficiently accessed. It teaches good design judgement through an approach that puts the "hands-on" work of constructing and running programs at the center of the learning process. This best-selling book has been thoroughly updated. It includes timely coverage of file structures in a UNIX environement, in addition to a new and substantial appendix on CD-ROM. All former programs in C and Pascal have been updated to ANSI C and Turbo Pascal 6.0.

Michael J. Folk manages the Scientific Data Technologies Group at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois in Urbana. He has been responsible for developing a general purpose scientific data file format called HDF and software for managing data in high-performance, high-volume computing environments. Prior to his work at Illinois, Dr. Folk was a professor of computer science for fifteen years at Oklahoma State and Drake Universities. Bill Zoellick is currently a partner in and founder of Fastwater LLP, a consultancy focusing on helping companies build effective web businesses. He frequently writes about the issues addressed in Web Engagement and speaks on them at user conferences such as Seybold and Internet World and at various user associations and seminars. He has been a software developer, business owner, executive in a $100 million software company, and, most recently, a management consultant and business analyst. 0201557134AB05172001

(All chapters, except Chapter 1, contain a Summary, Key Terms, Exercises and Further Readings.)

Introduction to File Structures.


The Heart of File Structure Design.



A Short History of File Structure Design.



A Conceptual Toolkit: File Structure Literacy.



Summary.



Key Terms.



Fundamental File Processing Operations.


Physical Files and Logical Files.



Opening Files.



Closing Files.



Reading and Writing.



Seeking.



Special Characters in Files.



The UNIX Directory Structure.



Physical and Logical Files in UNIX.



File-related Header Files.



UNIX Filesystem Commands.



Secondary Storage Devices and System Software.


Disks.



Magnetic Tape.



Disk Versus Tape.



Storage as a Hierarchy.



A Journey of a Byte.



Buffer Management.



I/O in UNIX.



Fundamental File Structure Concepts.


Field and Record Organization.



Record Access.



More about Record Structures.



File Access and File Organization.



Beyond Record Structures.



Portability and Standardization.



C Programs.



Pascal Programs.



Organizing Files for Performance.


Data Compression.



Reclaiming Space in Files.



Finding Things Quickly: An Introduction to Internal Sorting and Binary.



Searching.



Keysorting.



Indexing.


What Is an Index?



A Simple Index with an Entry-Sequenced File.



Basic Operations on an Indexed, Entry-Sequenced File.



Indexes That are Too Large to Hold in Memory.



Indexing to Provide Access by Multiple Keys.



Retrieval Using Combinations of Secondary Keys.



Improving the Secondary Index Structure: Inverted Lists.



Selective Indexes.



Binding.



Cosequential Processing and the Sorting Process and the Sorting of Large Files.


A Model for Implementing Cosequential Processes.



Application of the Model to a General Ledger Program.



Extension of the Model to Include Multiway Merging.



A Second Look at Sorting in RAM.



Merging as a Way of Sorting Large Files on Disk.



Sorting Files on Tape.



Sort-Merge Packages.



Sorting and Cosequential Processing in UNIX.



B-Trees and Other Tree-Structured File Organizations.


Introduction: The Invention of the B-Tree.



Statement of the Problem.



Binary Search Trees as a Solution.



AVL Trees.



Paged Binary Trees.



The Problem with the Top-down Construction of Paged Trees.



B-Trees: Working up from the Bottom.



Splitting and Promoting.



Algorithms for B-Tree searching and Insertion.



B-Tree Nomenclature.



Formal definition of B-Tree Properties.



Worst-case Search Depth.



Deletion, Redistribution, and Concatenation.



Redistribution During Insertion: A Way to Improve Storage Utilization.



B+ Trees.



Buffering of Pages: Virtual B-Trees.



Placement of Information Associated with the Key.



Variable-length Records and Keys.



C Programs to Insert Keys into a B-Tree.



Pascal Programs to Insert Keys into a B-Tree.



The B+ Tree Family and Indexed Sequential File Access.


Indexed Sequential Access.



Maintaining a Sequence Set.



Adding a Simple Index to the Sequence Set.



The Content of the Index: Separators Instead of Keys.



The Simple Prefix B+ Tree.



Simple Prefix B+ Tree Maintenance.



Index Set Block Size.



Internal Structure of Index Set Blocks: A Variable-order B-Tree.



Loading a Simple Prefix B+ Tree.



B+ Trees.



B-Trees, B+ Trees, and Simple Prefix B+ Trees in Perspective.



Hashing.


Introduction.



A Simple Hashing Algorithm.



Hashing Functions and Record Distributions.



How Much Extra Memory Should Be Used?



Collision Resolution by Progressive Overflow.



Storing More Than One Record per Address: Buckets.



Making Deletions.



Other Collision Resolution Techniques.



Patterns of Record Access.



Extendible Hashing.


Introduction.



How Extendible Hashing Works.



Implementation.



Deletion.



Extendible Hashing Performance.



Alternative Approaches.



Appendix A.


Using This Appendix.



Introduction to CD-ROM.



Physical Organization of CD-ROM.



CD-ROM Strengths and Weaknesses.



Tree Structures on CD-ROM.



Hashed Files on CD-ROM.



The CD-ROM File System.



Appendix B: ASCII Table.


Appendix C: String Functions in Pascal.


Appendix D: Comparing Disk Drives.


Bibliography.


Index. 0201557134T04062001

Erscheint lt. Verlag 9.1.1992
Sprache englisch
Gewicht 1000 g
Themenwelt Mathematik / Informatik Informatik Office Programme
Informatik Theorie / Studium Algorithmen
ISBN-10 0-201-55713-4 / 0201557134
ISBN-13 978-0-201-55713-8 / 9780201557138
Zustand Neuware
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