4NF Decomposition for Functional and Multivalued Dependency Sets (4NF Decomposition)

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Description

4NF Decomposition is the problem of decomposing a relation schema into fourth normal form (4NF). This variation specifies that the input dependency set has only functional and multivalued dependencies.

A relation schema $R^*$ is in fourth normal form (4NF) if, whenever a nontrivial multivalued dependency $X \rightarrow \rightarrow Y$ holds for $R^*$, then so does the functiunal dependency $X \rightarrow A$ for every column name $A$ of $R^*$. Intuitively all dependencies are the result of keys. In particular a 4NF relation schema can have no nontrivial multivalued dependencies that are not functional dependencies.

Related Problems

Generalizations: 4NF Decomposition

Related: 4NF Decomposition for Conflict-Free Dependency Sets

Parameters

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Table of Algorithms

Name Year Time Space Approximation Factor Model Reference
Tradu; Mirc 1967 $O({2}^n)$ Exact Deterministic
Xu; Renio 1972 $O({2}^n)$ Exact Deterministic
Derek's Algorithm 1983 $O({2}^n)$ Exact Deterministic
Russell et. al. 1989 $O({2}^n)$ Exact Deterministic
Maxwell 2000 $O({2}^n)$ Exact Deterministic
Derek's + Maxwell 2001 $O({2}^n)$ Exact Deterministic
Naive 1956 $O({2}^n)$ Exact Deterministic
Trino 2004 $O({2}^n)$ Exact Deterministic
Grahne and Räihä 1983 exponential exponential Exact Deterministic Time & Space
Fagin 1977 exponential exponential Exact Deterministic Time & Space

Time Complexity Graph

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Space Complexity Graph

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Time-Space Tradeoff

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