Nested loop join

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A nested loop join is a naive algorithm that joins two relations by using two nested loops. [1] Join operations are important for database management.

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Two relations and are joined as follows:

algorithm nested_loop_join isfor each tuple r in Rdofor each tuple s in Sdoifr and s satisfy the join condition thenyield tuple <r,s>

This algorithm will involve nr*bs+ br block transfers and nr+br seeks, where br and bs are number of blocks in relations R and S respectively, and nr is the number of tuples in relation R.

The algorithm runs in I/Os, where and is the number of tuples contained in and respectively and can easily be generalized to join any number of relations ...

The block nested loop join algorithm [2] is a generalization of the simple nested loops algorithm that takes advantage of additional memory to reduce the number of times that the relation is scanned. It loads large chunks of relation R into main memory. For each chunk, it scans S and evaluates the join condition on all tuple pairs, currently in memory. This reduces the number of times S is scanned to once per chunk.

Index join variation

If the inner relation has an index on the attributes used in the join, then the naive nest loop join can be replaced with an index join.

algorithm index_join isfor each tuple r in Rdofor each tuple s in S in the index lookup doyield tuple <r,s>

The time complexity for this variation improves from

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References

  1. "Understanding Nested Loops Joins". 4 October 2012.
  2. http://www.databaselecture.com/slides/9_Operator_Implementations.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]