Storage sub-systems to support large functional databases

Author

Maller, V.A.J. ; Sheldrake, S.N.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Studies, Loughborough Univ. of Technol., UK

fYear

1998

fDate

8-10 Jul 1998

Firstpage

52

Lastpage

53

Abstract

Earlier work by Maller and King (1996) evaluated the suitability of a functional database language (FDL) being used to support large applications in the field of investigative systems. This is a growing generic application area covering criminal and military intelligence and characterised by: significant data complexity; large data sets; and the need for high performance, interactive use. The evaluation confirmed the soundness of FDL but, heavy use in a practical context showed improvements were needed to areas like string matching and graph traversal. Also, an implementation on multiprocessor, parallel architectures would help meet the performance requirements arising from existing and projected database sizes in this application area. This paper discusses some of the proposed changes to the interfaces in the software architecture for a future system that should meet both the requirements of extended functionality and potential parallelisation

Keywords

data structures; database languages; functional languages; military computing; multiprocessing systems; police data processing; relational databases; software performance evaluation; string matching; very large databases; FDL; criminal intelligence; data complexity; functional database language; graph traversal; interactive use; investigative systems; large data sets; large functional databases; military intelligence; multiprocessor; parallel architectures; performance; relational database; software architecture; storage sub-systems; string matching; Application software; Application specific integrated circuits; Binary trees; Data models; Database languages; Delay; Educational institutions; Memory;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Database Engineering and Applications Symposium, 1998. Proceedings. IDEAS'98. International

Conference_Location

Cardiff

ISSN

1098-8068

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8307-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IDEAS.1998.694356

Filename

694356