Date of Award
1998
Document Type
Thesis
Publisher
Edith Cowan University
Degree Name
Bachelor of Science Honours
Faculty
Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering
First Supervisor
Jean Hall
Abstract
Relational database systems use join queries to retrieve data from two relations. Several join methods can be used to execute these queries. This study investigated the effect of varying join selectivity factors on the performance of the join methods. Experiments using the ORACLE environment were set up to measure the performance of three join methods: nested loop join, sort merge join and hash join. The performance was measured in terms of total elapsed time, CPU time and the number of I/O reads. The study found that the hash join performs better than the nested loop and the sort merge under all varying conditions. The nested loop competes with the hash join at low join selectivity factor. The results also showed that the sort merge join method performs better than the nested loop when a predicate is applied to the inner table.
Recommended Citation
Mallet, A. (1998). An Experimental Study Into the Effect of Varying the Join Selectivity Factor on the Performance of Join Methods in Relational Databases. Edith Cowan University. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses_hons/784