Karl Weber <[email protected]> writes: > Is there a way to use an R-Tree with derby db? (Or a GiST?) > > In [1] R-Trees are mentioned on page 55. Is it possible to add one's own > implementation on top of derby, if it is not added to derby? How would one do > this?
This would be a non-trivial amount of work. Derby currently uses B-tree indexes only. Although the code is fairly well modularized, I suspect assumptions about B-tree indexes pervade more code than the optimizer. Thanks, Dag > > /Karl > > [1] http://db.apache.org/derby/binaries/ApacheDerbyInternals_1_1.pdf
