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This paper presents and discusses a radically different approach to multi-dimensional indexing based on the concept of the space-filling curve. It reports the novel algorithms which had to be developed to create the first actual implementation of a system based on this approach, on some comparative performance tests, and on its actual use within the TriStarp Group at Birkbeck to provide a Triple Store repository. An important result that goes beyond this requirement, however, is that the performance improvement over the Grid File is greater the higher the dimension.
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Lawder, J.K., King, P.J.H. (2000). Using Space-Filling Curves for Multi-dimensional Indexing. In: Lings, B., Jeffery, K. (eds) Advances in Databases. BNCOD 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1832. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45033-5_3
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