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Parallel Database Systems: PRISMA Workshop Noordwijk, The Netherlands, September 24–26, 1990 Proceedings

By Pierre America (eds.) , Henri E. Bal (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
1991
ISBN
3540541322, 9783540541325
DOI
10.1007/3-540-54132-2
Open Library ID
OL12776252M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
6 MB (6541848 bytes)
Series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 503
Edition
1
Pages
439\441
Library
Kolxo3
DPI
300
Time added
2011-07-22 07:35:22
Database Management; Programming Techniques; Proce

Description

This volume presents the proceedings of a workshop on parallel database systems organized by the PRISMA (Parallel Inference and Storage Machine) project. The invited contributions by internationally recognized experts give a thorough survey of several aspects of parallel database systems. The second part of the volume gives an in-depth overview of the PRISMA system. This system is based on a parallel machine, where the individual processors each have their own local memory and communicate with each other over a packet-switched network. On this machine a parallel object-oriented programming language, POOL-X, has been implemented, which provides dedicated support for database systems as well as general facilities for parallel programming. The POOL-X system then serves as a platform for a complete relational main-memory database management system, which uses the parallelism of the machine to speed up significantly the execution of database queries. The presentation of the PRISMA system, together with the invited papers, gives a broad overview of the state of the art in parallel database systems.

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