Patent ID: 8694575

Claim:
A data-intensive computer comprising: a processing sub-system formed by a plurality of processing servers; a database sub-system formed by a plurality of database servers configured to form a collective database; a unifying operating system environment extending across the processing sub-system and the database sub-system to coordinate operation of the plurality of processing servers and the plurality of database servers to act as components in a single data-intensive computer; wherein the unifying operating system environment is further configured to present the database sub-system to an application running in the data-intensive computer as a layer in a memory hierarchy of the data-intensive computer; wherein the unifying operating system environment is further configured to implement a memory system for the data-intensive computer to deliver pages between the processing sub-system and the database sub-system such that the plurality of database servers provide 0(log N) access to individual random pages of data stored within the collective database storing N pages of data; and wherein the unifying operating system environment presents a system management layer, a data object layer, a database access layer, and a data transport layer to coordinate operation of the processing sub-system and the database sub-system.