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Database Theory in Action: Direct Access to Query Answers

Published: January 9, 2026 | arXiv ID: 2601.06013v1

By: Jiayin Hu, Nikolaos Tziavelis

Potential Business Impact:

Finds answers in lists faster than before.

Business Areas:
Database Data and Analytics, Software

Direct access asks for the retrieval of query answers by their ranked position, given a query and a desired order. While the time complexity of data structures supporting such accesses has been studied in depth, and efficient algorithms for many queries and common orders are known, their practical performance has received little attention. We provide an implementation covering a wide range of queries and orders; it allows us to investigate intriguing practical aspects, including the comparative performance of database systems and the relationship between direct access and its single-access counterpart.

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Page Count
5 pages

Category
Computer Science:
Databases