An advanced database accelerator

Author

Bergsten, Bjorn ; Gonzalez-Rubio, Ruben ; Kerherve, Brigitte ; Rohmer, Jean

Author_Institution

Bull SA, Louveciennes, France

Volume

8

Issue

5

fYear

1988

Firstpage

47

Lastpage

63

Abstract

The authors report on a research project launched to develop a complete database management system (DBMS) to support emerging applications. They developed a hardware architecture consisting of a general-purpose host computer and the Delta Driven Computer (DDC), a parallel system that plays the role of a relational database accelerator. They also used compilation and I/O reduction to improve the efficiency of the DBMS and proposed a production-rule language that could be compiled into programs with explicit parallelism. The authors present their research objectives, give a general overview of the DDC, and discuss the elements of a complete DBMS.<>

Keywords

parallel processing; relational databases; special purpose computers; Delta Driven Computer; I/O reduction; compilation; database accelerator; database management system; general-purpose host computer; parallel system; Acceleration; Application software; Artificial intelligence; Books; Concurrent computing; Database systems; Parallel processing; Power system modeling; Relational databases; Spatial databases;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Micro, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0272-1732

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/40.87527

Filename

87527