Title :
Main memory database systems: an overview
Author :
Garcia-Molina, Hector ; Salem, Kenneth
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Stanford Univ., CA, USA
fDate :
12/1/1992 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Main memory database systems (MMDBs) store their data in main physical memory and provide very high-speed access. Conventional database systems are optimized for the particular characteristics of disk storage mechanisms. Memory resident systems, on the other hand, use different optimizations to structure and organize data, as well as to make it reliable. The authors survey the major memory residence optimizations and briefly discuss some of the MMDBs that have been designed or implemented
Keywords :
concurrency control; distributed databases; relational databases; storage management; concurrency control; disk storage mechanisms; distributed databases; high-speed access; main memory databases; memory residence optimizations; physical memory; relational databases; Application software; Computer science; Concurrency control; Costs; Database systems; Delay; Design optimization; Query processing; Semiconductor memory; Transaction databases;
Journal_Title :
Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
