Querying a cascading index that avoids disk accesses

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8595248
APP PUB NO 20090292947A1
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12469637

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Techniques for maintaining a cascading index are provided. In one approach, one or more branch node compression techniques are applied to the main index of a cascading index. In an approach, a Bloom filter is generated and associated with, e.g., a branch node in the main index. The Bloom filter is used to determine whether, without accessing any leaf blocks, a particular key value exists, e.g., in leaf blocks associated with the branch node. In an approach, a new redo record is generated in response to a merge operation between two levels of the cascading index. The new redo record comprises (a) one or more addresses of blocks that are affected by the merge operation, (b) data is that being “pushed down” to a lower level of the cascading index, and (c) one or more addresses of blocks that are written to disk storage as a result of the merge operation.

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  • ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION

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Ganesh, Amit San Jose, US 159 5611
Kunchithapadam, Krishna Portland, US 12 509
Loaiza, Juan R Woodside, US 100 3478

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