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Selection of views to materialize in a data warehouse

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Abstract

A data warehouse stores materialized views of data from one or more sources, with the purpose of efficiently implementing decision-support or OLAP queries. One of the most important decisions in designing a data warehouse is the selection of materialized views to be maintained at the warehouse. The goal is to select an appropriate set of views that minimizes total query response time and the cost of maintaining the selected views, given a limited amount of resource, e.g., materialization time, storage space etc. In this article, we develop a theoretical framework for the general problem of selection of views in a data warehouse. We present competitive polynomial-time heuristics for selection of views to optimize total query response time, for some important special cases of the general data warehouse scenario, viz.: (i) an AND view graph, where each query/view has a unique evaluation, and (ii) an OR view graph, in which any view can be computed from any one of its related views, e.g., data cubes. We extend the algorithms to the case when there is a set of indexes associated with each view. Finally, we extend our heuristic to the most general case of AND-OR view graphs.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDatabase Theory - ICDT 1997 - 6th International Conference, Proceedings
EditorsFoto Afrati, Phokion Kolaitis
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages98-112
Number of pages15
ISBN (Print)9783540622222
DOIs
StatePublished - 1997
Event6th International Conference on Database Theory, ICDT 1997 - Delphi, Greece
Duration: Jan 8 1997Jan 10 1997

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume1186
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference6th International Conference on Database Theory, ICDT 1997
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityDelphi
Period01/8/9701/10/97

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