International Journal of Computer Applications |
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
Volume 21 - Number 3 |
Year of Publication: 2011 |
Authors: Deepak Shukla, Dr. Deepak Arora, Rakesh Kr. Pandey, K. K. Agrawal |
10.5120/2491-3365 |
Deepak Shukla, Dr. Deepak Arora, Rakesh Kr. Pandey, K. K. Agrawal . An Efficient Approach of Block Nested Loop Algorithm based on Rate of Block Transfer. International Journal of Computer Applications. 21, 3 ( May 2011), 24-30. DOI=10.5120/2491-3365
In this paper, an approach has been proposed that makes the processing of join operation in database systems more efficient. In join operation processing relations that take part in the join process are required to be transferred to the main memory (RAM) from hard disk. In join operation processing when block nested loop algorithm is used to perform join between relations and multiple blocks of the relations that take part in the joining process are transferred from hard disk to main memory than in this case the main memory buffer allotted to the blocks of relation. Using this approach, multiple blocks are transferred for the relations that participates in the join operation processing, instead of transferring blocks one by one for each relation (or multiple blocks for one relation) without worrying about the large and small databases size. When this new approach is applied, the rate of block transfer during join operation processing using block nested loop algorithm get minimizes and join query processing become efficient, without loosing the level of complexity of the previous algorithms of block nested loop join(BNLJ).