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@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/sigmod/KornackerSH98,
author = {Marcel Kornacker and
Mehul A. Shah and
Joseph M. Hellerstein},
editor = {Laura M. Haas and
Ashutosh Tiwary},
title = {amdb: An Access Method Debugging Tool},
booktitle = {SIGMOD 1998, Proceedings ACM SIGMOD International Conference
on Management of Data, June 2-4, 1998, Seattle, Washington, USA},
publisher = {ACM Press},
year = {1998},
isbn = {0-89791-995-5},
pages = {570-571},
ee = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/276304.276384, db/conf/sigmod/KornackerSH98.html},
crossref = {DBLP:conf/sigmod/98},
bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}
BibTeX
The design and tuning of new access methods (AMs) for non-traditional data types and application areas has always been more of a black art than a rigorous discipline. The designer can only rely on intuition to come up with an effective design; its evaluation and profiling require tedious instrumentation of complex AM code and a host of hand-written scripts.
To address these issues, we developed amdb, a visual AM ``debugging'' tool tosupport the AM design and implementation process. It is based on the GiST ( Generalized Search Tree) framework for AM construction, which offers the designer an abstracted view of a tree-structured AM and factors out the mechanical aspects of an AM implementation, such as tree traversal, concurrency control and recovery. Amdb is a visual analysis, debugging and profiling toolfor AMs that are written as extensions of libgist, a public-domain stand-alone C++ implementation of GiSTs.
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