Safely and Efficiently Updating References During On-line Reorganization

Summary: Online reorganization defers secondary index updates and piggybacks them on user transactions to cut total I/O. Offers near-constant availability, interruptible/restartable reorganization, and potential applicability to regular update performance. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8706
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1998
Pagerank: 6.4838601e-05
Overall Rank: 4,839 | 66.81%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Chendong Zou (Informix; Northeastern University)
2. Betty Salzberg (Northeastern University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{zou_vldb98,
        title = {{Safely and Efficiently Updating References During On-line Reorganization}},
        author = {Zou, Chendong and Salzberg, Betty},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '98},
        pages = {512},
        year = {1998}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,454	Towards Self-Tuning Data Placement in Parallel Database Systems	2000	SIGMOD	7.4001286e-05
6,879	Oracle8i Index-Organized Table and its Application to New Domains	2000	VLDB	5.7475732e-05
7,804	Online B-Tree Merging	2005	SIGMOD	5.5415082e-05
7,944	On-line Reorganization in Object Databases	2000	SIGMOD	5.5181056e-05
12,866	Online Scaling in a Highly Available Database	2001	VLDB	5.093636e-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
214	ARIES/KVL: A Key-Value Locking Method for Concurrency Control of Multiaction Transactions Operating on B-Tree Indexes	1990	VLDB	0.00024680756
924	Algorithms for Creating Indexes for Very Large Tables Without Quiescing Updates	1992	SIGMOD	0.00013185068
2,968	On-line Reorganization of Sparsely-populated B+-trees	1996	SIGMOD	7.9149281e-05
3,416	Two Techniques for On-Line Index Modification in Shared Nothing Parallel Databases	1996	SIGMOD	7.430628e-05
5,493	Principles of Transaction-Based On-Line Reorganization	1992	VLDB	6.1999067e-05

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