A Multidimensional Digital Hashing Scheme for Files With Composite Keys

Summary: Proposes multidimensional hashing, a scheme for composite-key data using linear hashing on each attribute to compute a d-tuple address. A mapping converts the d-tuple to a linear address in O(d), enabling inserts/deletes and partial-match/range queries. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2337
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1985
Pagerank: 6.3876755e-05
Overall Rank: 5,047 | 65.38%
DOI: 10.1145/318898.318918

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Ekow J. Otoo (Carleton University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{otoo_sigmod85,
        title = {{A Multidimensional Digital Hashing Scheme for Files With Composite Keys}},
        author = {Otoo, Ekow J.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '85},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/318898.318918},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/318898.318918},
        year = {1985}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,032	The BANG file: a new kind of grid file	1987	SIGMOD	0.00012530965
3,708	Providing Better Support for a Class of Decision Support Queries	1996	SIGMOD	7.1814701e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
507	Interpolation-Based Index Maintenance	1983	PODS	0.00017277375
833	Storage Mappings For Multidimensional Linear Dynamic Hashing	1983	PODS	0.0001372601
2,361	Cascade Hashing	1984	VLDB	8.6919996e-05
3,848	A Single-File Version of Linear Hashing with Partial Expansions	1982	VLDB	7.0746089e-05
5,577	A Mapping Function for the Directory of a Multidimensional Extendible Hashing	1984	VLDB	6.1661217e-05

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