Linked-tree: An aggregate query algorithm based on sliding window over data stream

How to process aggregate queries over data streams efficiently and effectively have been becoming hot research topics in both academic community and industrial community. Aiming at the issues, a novel Linked-tree algorithm based on sliding window is proposed in this paper. Due to the proposal of concept area, the Linked-tree algorithm reuses many primary results in last window and then avoids lots of unnecessary repeated comparison operations between two successive windows. As a result, execution efficiency of MAX query is improved dramatically. In addition, since the size of memory is relevant to the number of areas but irrelevant to the size of sliding window, memory is economized greatly. The extensive experimental results show that the performance of Linked-tree algorithm has significant improvement gains over the traditional SC (Simple Compared) algorithm and Ranked-tree algorithm.