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The design of the IRISS parallel database machine
  The decision support potential of large commercial relational databases is limited by the vast amounts of computing power required to perform complex queries on large datasets. Massively parallel processing offers the potential to open up new possibilities in on-line decision support by increasing by orders of magnitude the amount of power brought to bear on the problem. The authors believe, however, that ports of conventional RDBMS code onto parallel platforms are not capable of exploiting the true potential of such hardware.

The IRISS parallel database machine is based upon a software architecture which has been designed from first principles to be optimum for distributed memory massively parallel hardware architectures. The design of the system is outlined in the poster.

  • Date:

    31 December 1996

  • Publication Status:

    Published

  • Publisher

    Springer Berlin Heidelberg

  • DOI:

    10.1007/3-540-61142-8_646

  • ISSN:

    0302-9743

  • Library of Congress:

    QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science

  • Dewey Decimal Classification:

    004 Data processing & computer science

  • Funders:

    Historic Funder (pre-Worktribe)

Citation

Walter, D., & Kerridge, J. (1996). The design of the IRISS parallel database machine. In High-Performance Computing and Networking: International Conference and Exhibition HPCN EUROPE 1996 Brussels, Belgium, April 15–19, 1996 Proceedings. , (913-914). https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61142-8_646

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Keywords

software architecture; complex query; true potential; base table; concurrent user; parallel processing

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