sequential access

Sequential access devices are usually a form of magnetic memory.

Interleaving allowed a sequential access to occur immediately after the previous one.

The opposite is sequential access, where a remote element takes longer time to access.

Sequential access is sometimes the only way of accessing the data, for example if it is on a tape.

Tape is characterized by sequential access to data.

In the latter case, a data set written with sequential access can be later processed in a direct manner.

There are two types of data access, sequential access and random access.

The performance of sequential access is much faster than that of random access.

This improved performance when doing sequential access.

For sequential access once the tape is positioned, however, tape drives can stream data very fast.

Record access is done by navigating through the data structure using pointers combined with sequential accessing.

Sequential Access - starting with a particular records, subsequent records are retrieved in order until the end of the file.

Its purpose is to allow applications to store and retrieve data via indexed and sequential access.

The block size on sequential access devices can either be fixed or variable, depending on the specific device.

Indexing into a list that has sequential access requires O(k) time, where k is the index.

While sequential access memory is read in sequence, accesses can still be made to arbitrary locations by "seeking" to the requested location.

Updating in batch requires sequential access - since it uses a magnetic tape this is the only way to access data.

Custom protocol, sequential access only.

Also known as the Sequential Access Theorem.

Sequential access assumes that records can be processed only sequentially, as opposed to direct (or random) access.

In contrast, a variable length code requires sequential access to find the n'th code point.

Indexes are used for both sequential access to rows in the order defined, and for direct record navigation based on indexed column values.

Holographic storage would be non-volatile, sequential access, and either write once or read/write storage.

In data structures, a data structure is said to have sequential access if one can only visit the values it contains in one particular order.

On the other hand, some algorithms, typically those that don't index, require only sequential access, such as mergesort, and face no penalty.