The multibackend database system (MDBS): a performance study

Author

Hall, J.E. ; Hsiao, D.K. ; Kamel, M.N.

Author_Institution

US Naval Postgrad. Sch., Monterey, CA, USA

fYear

1990

fDate

7-9 Mar 1990

Firstpage

139

Lastpage

143

Abstract

The authors describe a performance evaluation study of an experimental database computer with a variable number of parallel database backends. They first discuss the performance measures employed for this type of database computer. Next, they describe the benchmarks and interpret the results. Preliminary test results indicate the viability and promise of this type of parallel database computer in performance gain and capacity growth. During the overhead-intensive portion of the performance evaluation, MDBS demonstrated good levels of response-time reduction and response-time invariance

Keywords

database management systems; parallel machines; performance evaluation; special purpose computers; MDBS; benchmarks; capacity growth; multibackend database system; overhead-intensive portion; parallel database backends; parallel database computer; performance evaluation; performance gain; performance measures; response-time invariance; response-time reduction; Benchmark testing; Concurrent computing; Database systems; Delay; Gain measurement; Laboratories; Performance gain; Prototypes; Time measurement; Transaction databases;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Databases, Parallel Architectures and Their Applications,. PARBASE-90, International Conference on

Conference_Location

Miami Beach, FL

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2035-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PARBSE.1990.77133

Filename

77133