Imprints

Imprints are a novel secondary index structure to speed up scans over large tables described in the ACM SIGMOD paper "Column imprints: a secondary index structure". They are automatically created over columns of fixed type and carry a maximal storage overhead of 12%. An effective compression scheme brings this often down to much less storage.

command bat.imprints(b:bat[:oid,:bte]) :void
address CMDBATimprints;
command bat.imprints(b:bat[:oid,:sht]) :void
address CMDBATimprints;
command bat.imprints(b:bat[:oid,:int]) :void
address CMDBATimprints;
command bat.imprints(b:bat[:oid,:lng]) :void
address CMDBATimprints;
command bat.imprints(b:bat[:oid,:flt]) :void
address CMDBATimprints;
command bat.imprints(b:bat[:oid,:dbl]) :void
address CMDBATimprints
comment "Check for existence or create an imprint index on the BAT.";

command bat.imprintsize(b:bat[:oid,:bte]):lng
address CMDBATimprintsize;
command bat.imprintsize(b:bat[:oid,:sht]):lng
address CMDBATimprintsize;
command bat.imprintsize(b:bat[:oid,:int]):lng
address CMDBATimprintsize;
command bat.imprintsize(b:bat[:oid,:lng]):lng
address CMDBATimprintsize;
command bat.imprintsize(b:bat[:oid,:flt]):lng
address CMDBATimprintsize;
command bat.imprintsize(b:bat[:oid,:dbl]):lng
address CMDBATimprintsize
comment "Return the storage size of the imprints index structure.";