The invention discloses an index data storage method and relates to the field of
data processing. By compression of index pages,
system storage space is reduced, and number of index records on each index page is increased. The index data storage method includes: acquiring all raw index data sets in a single page, creating an index
bitmap in the single page, and determining and storing a minimum index value in the single page; subtracting the minimum index value from each index value to calculate difference values
delta1, setting a flag bit of the
delta1th position in the index
bitmap, then deleting the index values in each raw index
data set, and after compressed index data sets including only tuple addresses are generated, restoring the compressed index
data set corresponding to each raw index
data set in the single page according to the higher-lower bit sequence of the
delta1, corresponding to the index values, in the index
bitmap so as to complete
index compression. The n index data storage method is mainly applied to the process of index data storage.