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Relational Algebra. Relational Algebra. Formalism for creating new relations from existing ones Its place in the big picture:. Declartive query language. Algebra. Implementation. Relational algebra Relational bag algebra. SQL, relational calculus. Relational Algebra. Five operators: - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Relational Algebra
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Relational Algebra
• Formalism for creating new relations from existing ones
• Its place in the big picture:
Declartivequery
languageAlgebra Implementation
SQL,relational calculus
Relational algebraRelational bag algebra
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Relational Algebra• Five operators:
– Union: – Difference: -– Selection:– Projection: – Cartesian Product:
• Derived or auxiliary operators:– Intersection, complement– Joins (natural,equi-join, theta join, semi-join)– Renaming:
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1. Union and 2. Difference
• R1 R2• Example:
– ActiveEmployees RetiredEmployees
• R1 – R2• Example:
– AllEmployees -- RetiredEmployees
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What about Intersection ?
• It is a derived operator• R1 R2 = R1 – (R1 – R2)• Also expressed as a join (will see later)• Example
– UnionizedEmployees RetiredEmployees
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3. Selection• Returns all tuples which satisfy a condition• Notation: c(R)• Examples
– Salary > 40000 (Employee)– name = “Smithh” (Employee)
• The condition c can be =, <, , >, , <>
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Selection Example
EmployeeSSN Name DepartmentID Salary999999999 John 1 30,000777777777 Tony 1 32,000888888888 Alice 2 45,000
SSN Name DepartmentID Salary888888888 Alice 2 45,000
Find all employees with salary more than $40,000.Salary > 40000 (Employee)
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4. Projection• Eliminates columns, then removes
duplicates• Notation: A1,…,An (R)• Example: project social-security number
and names:– SSN, Name (Employee)– Output schema: Answer(SSN, Name)
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Projection Example
EmployeeSSN Name DepartmentID Salary999999999 John 1 30,000777777777 Tony 1 32,000888888888 Alice 2 45,000
SSN Name999999999 John777777777 Tony888888888 Alice
SSN, Name (Employee)
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5. Cartesian Product
• Each tuple in R1 with each tuple in R2• Notation: R1 R2• Example:
– Employee Dependents• Very rare in practice; mainly used to
express joins
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Cartesian Product Example Employee Name SSN John 999999999 Tony 777777777 Dependents EmployeeSSN Dname 999999999 Emily 777777777 Joe Employee x Dependents Name SSN EmployeeSSN Dname John 999999999 999999999 Emily John 999999999 777777777 Joe Tony 777777777 999999999 Emily Tony 777777777 777777777 Joe
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Relational Algebra• Five operators:
– Union: – Difference: -– Selection:– Projection: – Cartesian Product:
• Derived or auxiliary operators:– Intersection, complement– Joins (natural,equi-join, theta join, semi-join)– Renaming:
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Renaming
• Changes the schema, not the instance• Notation: B1,…,Bn (R)• Example:
– LastName, SocSocNo (Employee)– Output schema:
Answer(LastName, SocSocNo)
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Renaming Example
EmployeeName SSNJohn 999999999Tony 777777777
LastName SocSocNoJohn 999999999Tony 777777777
LastName, SocSocNo (Employee)
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Natural Join• Notation: R1 R2⋈• Meaning: R1 R2 = ⋈ A(C(R1 R2))
• Where:– The selection C checks equality of all common
attributes– The projection eliminates the duplicate common
attributes
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Natural Join ExampleEmployeeName SSNJohn 999999999Tony 777777777
DependentsSSN Dname999999999 Emily777777777 Joe
Name SSN DnameJohn 999999999 EmilyTony 777777777 Joe
Employee Dependents = Name, SSN, Dname( SSN=SSN2(Employee x SSN2, Dname(Dependents))
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Natural Join
• R= S=
• R ⋈ S=
A B
X Y
X Z
Y Z
Z V
B C
Z U
V W
Z V
A B CX Z UX Z VY Z UY Z VZ V W
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Natural Join
• Given the schemas R(A, B, C, D), S(A, C, E), what is the schema of R ⋈ S ?
• Given R(A, B, C), S(D, E), what is R ⋈ S ?
• Given R(A, B), S(A, B), what is R ⋈ S ?
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Theta Join
• A join that involves a predicate• R1 ⋈ R2 = (R1 R2)• Here can be any condition
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Eq-join
• A theta join where is an equality• R1 ⋈A=B R2 = A=B (R1 R2)• Example:
– Employee ⋈SSN=SSN Dependents
• Most useful join in practice
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Semijoin
• R ⋉ S = A1,…,An (R ⋈ S)
• Where A1, …, An are the attributes in R• Example:
– Employee ⋉ Dependents
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Semijoins in Distributed Databases
• Semijoins are used in distributed databases
SSN Name
. . . . . .
SSN Dname Age
. . . . . .
EmployeeDependents
network
Employee ⋈ssn=ssn (age>71 (Dependents))
T = SSN age>71 (Dependents)R = Employee T⋉
Answer = R ⋈ Dependents
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Complex RA Expressions
Person Purchase Person Product
name=fred name=gizmo
pid ssn
seller-ssn=ssn
pid=pid
buyer-ssn=ssn
name
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Operations on Bags
A bag = a set with repeated elementsAll operations need to be defined carefully on bags• {a,b,b,c}{a,b,b,b,e,f,f}={a,a,b,b,b,b,b,c,e,f,f}• {a,b,b,b,c,c} – {b,c,c,c,d} = {a,b,b,d}• C(R): preserve the number of occurrences
• A(R): no duplicate elimination• Cartesian product, join: no duplicate eliminationImportant ! Relational Engines work on bags, not sets !
Reading assignment: 5.3 – 5.4
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Finally: RA has Limitations !
• Cannot compute “transitive closure”
• Find all direct and indirect relatives of Fred• Cannot express in RA !!! Need to write C program
Name1 Name2 Relationship
Fred Mary Father
Mary Joe Cousin
Mary Bill Spouse
Nancy Lou Sister