Some Considerations about Modern Database Machines

Optimizing the two computing resources of any computing system - time and space - has alwaysbeen one of the priority objectives of any database. A current and effective solution inthis respect is the computer database. Optimizing computer applications by means of databasemachines has been a steady preoccupation of researchers since the late seventies. Severalinformation technologies have revolutionized the present information framework. Out ofthese, those which have brought a major contribution to the optimization of the databasesare: efficient handling of large volumes of data (Data Warehouse, Data Mining, OLAP – OnLine Analytical Processing), the improvement of DBMS – Database Management Systems facilitiesthrough the integration of the new technologies, the dramatic increase in computingpower and the efficient use of it (computer networks, massive parallel computing, Grid Computingand so on). All these information technologies, and others, have favored the resumptionof the research on database machines and the obtaining in the last few years of somevery good practical results, as far as the optimization of the computing resources is concerned