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Creating A Virtual Hierarchy From A Relational Database, Yucong Mo
Creating A Virtual Hierarchy From A Relational Database, Yucong Mo
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Fall 2023 to Present
In data management and modeling, the value of the hierarchical model is that it does not require expensive JOIN operations at runtime; once the hierarchy is built, the relationships among data are embedded in the tree-like hierarchical structure, and thus querying data could be much faster than using a relational database. Today most data is stored in relational databases, but if the data were stored in hierarchies, what would these hierarchies look like? And more importantly, would this transition lead to a more efficient database? This thesis explores these questions by introducing a set of algorithms to convert a relational …