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In relational databases, an attribute of a relation can have only a single primitive value, making it cumbersome to model complex objects. The objectoriented paradigm removes this difficulty by introducing the notion of nested objects, which allows the value of an object atribute to be another object or a set of other objects. This means that a class consists of a set of attributes, and the values of the attributes are objects that belong to other classes; that is, the definition of a class forms a hierarchy of classes. All attributes of the nested classes are nested attributes of the root of the hierarchy. A branch of such hierarchy is called apath. In this article, we address the problem of index configuration for a given path. We first summarize some basic concepts, and introduce the concept of index configuration for a path. Then we present cost formulas to evaluate the costs of the various configurations. Finally, we present the algorithm that determines the optimal configuration, and show its correctness.
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Bertino, E. Index configuration in object-oriented databases. VLDB Journal 3, 355–399 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01232644
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