Paper Info
Title
Amdb: A Visual Access Method Development Tool
Abstract
The development process for access methods (AMs) in database systems is complex and tedious. Amdb is a graphical tool that facilitates the design and tuning process for height-balanced tree-structured AMs. Central to amdb's user interface is a suite of graphical views that visualize the entire search tree, paths and subtrees within the tree, and data contained in the tree. These views animate search tree operations in order to visualize the behavior of an access method. Amdb provides metrics that characterize the performance of queries, the tree structure, and the structure-shaping aspects of an AM implementation. The visualizations can be used to browse the performance metrics in the context of the tree structure. The combination of these features allows a designer to locate the sources of performance loss reported by the metrics and investigate causes for those deficiencies.
Year
DOI
Venue
1999
10.1109/UIDIS.1999.791469
Los Alamitos, CA
Keywords
Field
DocType
entire search tree,performance loss,access method,tree structure,graphical tool,views animate search tree,visual access method development,height-balanced tree-structured ams,graphical view,development process,performance metrics,performance,database management systems,tellurium,database,software metrics,database systems,computer languages,index,impedance,user interface,data structures,tree graphs,tree data structures,user interfaces,animation,database system,production
Data mining,Data structure,Tree (graph theory),Access method,Computer science,Tree (data structure),Tree structure,Software metric,User interface,Search tree
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7695-0262-8
9
0.78
References 
Authors
10
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mehul A. Shah13547317.66
Marcel Kornacker2268142.79
Joseph M. Hellerstein3140931651.14