
1) Database index technique
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Shardmap is a directory index design by Daniel Phillips who created the HTree and PHTree tree data structures and the Tux3 file system. A Shardmap index consists of a scalable number of index shards. Each shard entry maps a hash key to the logical block number of a directory entry block known to contain a name that hashes to that key. Each shard i...
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