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Two Techniques for On-Line Index Modification in Shared Nothing Parallel Databases

Summary: Two online index-modification techniques for shared-nothing DBs: OAT (one-at-a-time) and BULK (bulk). BULK: order-of-magnitude faster with sequential prefetch I/O; OAT uses ≤1 extra page; with 1–2 indexes OAT preserves transactional performance; for >2 indexes both degrade similarly. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
2877
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1996
Pagerank
7.1029689e-05
Overall Rank
3,428 | 76.16%
DOI
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