1 / 20

Instructor: Chen Li

CS 222P: Principles of Data Management Notes # 8 Static Hashing, Extendible Hashing , Linear Hashing. Instructor: Chen Li. Introduction. Hash -based indexes are best for equality selections . Cannot support range searches.

orien
Download Presentation

Instructor: Chen Li

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript


  1. CS222P:Principles of Data ManagementNotes#8Static Hashing, Extendible Hashing, Linear Hashing Instructor: Chen Li

  2. Introduction • Hash-based indexes are best for equalityselections. Cannot support range searches. • Static and dynamic hashing techniques exist; trade-offs similar to ISAM vs. B+ trees.

  3. Static Hashing • # primary pages fixed, allocated sequentially, never de-allocated; overflow pages if needed. • h(k) mod M = bucket (page) to which data entry withkey k belongs. (M = # of buckets) 0 h(key) mod N 1 key h N-1 Primary bucket pages Overflow pages

  4. Static Hashing (Contd.) • Buckets contain data entries. • Hash fn works on search key field of record r. Must distribute values over range 0 ... M-1. • h(key) = (a * key + b) usually works well. • a and b are constants; lots known about how to tune h. • Long overflow chains can develop and degrade performance. • Extendible and LinearHashing: Dynamic techniques to fix this problem.

  5. Extendible Hashing • Situation: Bucket (primary page) becomes full. Why not re-organize file by doubling # of buckets? • Reading and writing all pages is expensive! • Idea: Use directory of pointers to buckets, double # of buckets by doubling the directory, but splittingjust the one data bucket that overflowed! • Directory much smaller than file, so doubling it is much cheaper. Only one page of data entries is split. Nooverflowpage now! • Trick lies in how hash function is adjusted!

  6. LOCAL DEPTH 2 Example Bucket A 16* 4* 12* 32* GLOBAL DEPTH 2 2 Bucket B 00 5* 1* 21* 13* 01 • Directory is array of size 4. • To find bucket for r, take last `global depth’ # bits of h(r); we denote r by h(r). • If h(r) = 5 = binary 101, it is in bucket pointed to by the two bits 01. 2 10 Bucket C 10* 11 2 DIRECTORY Bucket D 15* 7* 19* DATA PAGES • Insert: If bucket is full, splitit (allocate new page, re-distribute). • If necessary, double the directory. (As we will see, splitting a • bucket does not always require doubling; we can tell by • comparing global depth with local depth for the split bucket.)

  7. Insert h(r)=20 (Causes Doubling) ⁄  (Needs to become 3 now) 2 LOCAL DEPTH 3 LOCAL DEPTH Bucket A 32* 16* 32* 16* GLOBAL DEPTH Bucket A GLOBAL DEPTH 2 2 2 3 Bucket B 5* 21* 13* 1* 00 1* 5* 21* 13* 000 Bucket B 01 001 2 10 2 010 Bucket C 10* 11 10* Bucket C 011 100 2 2 DIRECTORY 101 Bucket D 15* 7* 19* 15* 7* 19* Bucket D 110 111 ⁄ 2  (Needs to become 3 now) 3 Bucket A2 Old Bucket A 4* 12* 20* 2 DIRECTORY Bucket A2 4* 12* 20* (`split image' of Bucket A) 4* 12* 32* 16* (`split image' of Bucket A)

  8. Points to Note • 20 = binary 10100. Last 2 bits (00) tell us r belongs in A or A2. Last 3 bits needed to tell which one. • Global depth of directory: Max # of bits needed to tell which bucket an entry belongs to. • Local depth of a bucket: # of bits used to determine if an entry belongs to this bucket. • When does bucket split cause directory doubling? • Before insert, local depth of bucket = global depth. Insert causes local depth to become > global depth; directory is doubled by copying it over and `fixing’ pointer to split page. (Note how use of least significant bits enables efficient doubling via bulk directory copying!)

  9. Insert records (see textbook) • Inserth(r)=13,20,9

  10. Comments on Extendible Hashing • If directory fits in memory, equality search answered with one disk access; else two. • 100MB file, 100 bytes/rec, 4K pages contains 1,000,000 records (as data entries) and 25,000 directory elements; chances are high that directory will fit in memory. • Directory grows in spurts, and, if the distribution of hash values is skewed, directory can grow large. • Multiple entries with same hash value cause problems! • Delete: If removal of data entry makes bucket empty, can be merged with `split image’. If each directory element points to same bucket as its split image, can halve directory.

  11. Next:Linear Hashing • This is another dynamic hashing scheme, an alternative to Extendible Hashing. • LH handles the problem of long overflow chains without using a directory, and handles duplicates. • Idea: Use a family of hash functions h0, h1, h2, ... • hi(key) = h(key) mod(2iN); N = initial # buckets • h is some hash function (range is not just 0 to N-1) • If N = 2d0, for some d0, hi consists of applying h and looking at the last di bits, where di = d0 + i. • hi+1 doubles range of hi (≈directory doubling) Ex: d0=2 so N=4

  12. Linear Hashing (Contd.) • Directory avoided in LH by using overflow pages, and choosing bucket to split round-robin. • Splitting proceeds in `rounds’. Round ends when all NRinitial (for round R) buckets are split. Buckets in 0 to Next-1 have been split; Next to NR have yet to be split. • Current round number is called Level. • Search:To find bucket for data entry r, findhLevel(r): • If hLevel(r) in range `Next to NR’, then r belongs here. • Else, r could belong to bucket hLevel(r) or to bucket hLevel(r) + NR; must apply hLevel+1(r) to find out which.

  13. Overview of LH File • In the middle of a round. Buckets split in this round: Bucket to be split If ( h search key value ) Level Next is in this range, must use h ( search key value ) Level+1 Buckets that existed at the to decide if entry is in beginning of this round: `split image' bucket. this is the range of h Level `Split image' buckets: created (through splitting of other buckets) in this round

  14. Linear Hashing (Contd.) • Insert: Find bucket by applying hLevel / hLevel+1: • If bucket to insert into is full: • Add overflow page and insert data entry. • (Maybe) Split Next bucket and increment Next. • Can choose any criterion to ‘trigger’ a split. • Since buckets are split round-robin, long overflow chains don’t develop! (See why?) • Doubling of directory in Extendible Hashing is similar; switching of hash functions is implicit in how the # of bits examined in EH is increased.

  15. Example of Linear Hashing • On split, hLevel+1 is used to re-distribute entries. Level=0, N=4 Level=0 Insert 43* (43 = 101011) PRIMARY h h OVERFLOW h h PRIMARY PAGES 0 0 1 1 PAGES PAGES Next=0 32* 32* 44* 36* 000 00 000 00 Next=1 Data entry r 9* 5* 9* 5* 25* 25* with h(r)=5 001 001 01 01 30* 30* 10* 10* 14* 18* 14* 18* Primary 10 10 010 010 bucket page 31* 35* 7* 31* 35* 7* 11* 11* 43* 011 011 11 11 (hi info is shown only for illustration....!) (Actual contents of linear hashed file) 100 44* 36* 00

  16. Example: End of a Round Level=1 PRIMARY OVERFLOW h h PAGES 0 1 PAGES Next=0 00 000 Level=0 32* PRIMARY OVERFLOW PAGES h PAGES h 1 0 001 01 9* 25* 32* 000 00 10 010 50* 10* 18* 66* 34* 9* 25* 001 01 Insert 50* 011 11 35* 11* 43* (50 = 110010) 66* 10 18* 10* 34* 010 Next=3 100 00 44* 36* 43* 11* 7* 31* 35* 011 11 101 11 5* 29* 37* 44* 36* 100 00 14* 22* 30* 110 10 5* 37* 29* 101 01 14* 30* 22* 31* 7* 11 111 110 10

  17. Insert records (see textbook) • Inserth(r)=43,37,29,22,66,34

  18. Summary (Cont’d.) • Linear Hashing avoids directory by splitting buckets round-robin and (still) using overflow pages. • Overflow chains not likely to be long. • Duplicates handled more easily. • Space utilization could be lower than Extendible Hashing, since splits are not concentrated on `dense’ data areas. • Can tune LH criterion for triggering splits to trade-off slightly longer chains for better space utilization. • Note: For hash-based indexes, a skewed data distribution is one in which the hash values of data entries are not uniformly distributed!

  19. Summary • Hash-based indexes: best for equality searches, cannot support range searches (i.e., not efficiently). • Static Hashing can lead to long overflow chains. • Extendible Hashing avoids overflow pages by splitting a full bucket when a new data entry is added to it. (Duplicates may require overflow pages.) • Directory to keep track of buckets; doubles periodically. • Directory can get large with skewed data; additional I/O if it does not fit in main memory.

  20. Cost of Operations • Several assumptions underlie these (rough) estimates!

More Related