A new paradigm for real-time database management

Summary form only given. The AP is SIMD architecture, as described in my companion abstract "3D Real-time Database". However, because any RTDB system requires high speed I/O, the AP has a multidimensional access memory (MDA) that implements the required I/O performance. Many other SIMD machines developed over the past years could not provide adequate I/O for the RTDB requirements. The AP can realize very high-speed performance in the execution of DB transactions because it implements a content addressable memory. The AP, a set processor, executes an operation over a set of data with one instruction. Because of this capability, most transactions are implemented in a single instruction stream that is executed once. The MP, on the other hand, must execute many instructions that move data from "common memory" to processors then execute operations on the individual processors and return results to "common memory". For some operations, like update a set of radar tracks, the AP performance can be in the order of 1,000 times faster than the MP.