Different types of database indexes? Different types of database indexes? database database

Different types of database indexes?


If for whatever reason somebody else comes across this and is wondering the same thing, I ended up finding a good list at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_relational_database_management_systems#Indexes


You should scour harder :-) - Wiki gives a good description

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_index


Many of the these concepts are orthogonal. A clustered index means that the rows are arranged in the table in the same order as they appear in the index. Independently, that index can be implemented using a B-tree, a B+ tree, a hash, spatially, etc. And then it may partition the table or not. One aspect may constrain but does not necessarily imply another.