Parallel Databases

Parallel machines are becoming quite common and affordable

  • Prices of microprocessors, memory and disks have dropped sharply
  • Recent desktop computers feature multiple processors and this trend is projected to accelerate
Databases are growing increasingly large

  • Large volumes of transaction data are collected and stored for later analysis.
  • Multimedia objects like images are increasingly stored in databases
Large-scale parallel database systems increasingly used for:

  • Storing large volumes of data
  • Processing time-consuming decision-support queries
  • Providing high throughput for transaction processing 

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