Parallel Database Systems
Subtitle: PRISMA Workshop, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, September 24-26, 1990. Proceedings. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: July 17, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 433
ISBN-13: 9783540541325
Subjects: Databases & data structures; Parallel processing; Computer Architecture - General; Data Processing - Parallel Processing; Database Management - General; Computers / Database Management / General; Computers / Parallel Processing; Computers : Computer Architecture - General; Computers : Database Management - General; Databases; Datenbank; Object-oriented Programming; Objektorientierte Programmierung (EDV); Parallel Computing; Parallelverarbeitung (EDV); Computers - General Information; Congresses; Database management; Parallel processing (Electroni
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."--PUBLISHER'S WEBSITE.