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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 1999
Filed:
May. 09, 1997
Rakesh Agrawal, San Jose, CA (US);
Jehoshua Bruck, La Canada, CA (US);
Ching-Tien Ho, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a method and system for performing a partial-sum query in a database in which the data is represented as a multi-dimensional data cube. The data cube is partitioned into multi-dimensional blocks. One or more covering codes are then selected for each block, and a group of partial-sums is computed for each block based on its covering codes. At query time, the query result is generated by combining the partial-sums for those blocks that intersect with the query subset. To improve the query response time and reduce system storage requirements, the covering codes are preferably augmented as single-weight extended covering codes or composition-extended covering codes. Also, a second partial-sum may also be computed for each block to efficiently find its partial sum, based on the block's first partial-sums and the bit-position differences between selected codewords for the block and bit strings representing the cell indexes of the blocks intersecting with the query subset.