Skyline with presorting

Abstract

The skyline, or Pareto, operator selects those tuples that are not dominated by any others. Extending relational systems with the skyline operator would offer a basis for handling preference queries. Good algorithms are needed for skyline, however, to make this efficient in a relational setting. We propose a skyline algorithm, SFS, based on presorting that is general, for use with any skyline query, efficient, and well behaved in a relational setting.