PRISMA/DB: a parallel, main memory relational DBMS

Author

Apers, Peter M G ; Van den Berg, Carel A. ; Flokstra, Jan ; Grefen, Paul W P J ; Kersten, Martin L. ; Wilschut, Annita N.

Author_Institution

Twente Univ., Enschede, Netherlands

Volume

4

Issue

6

fYear

1992

fDate

12/1/1992 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

541

Lastpage

554

Abstract

PRISMA/DB, a full-fledged parallel, main memory relational database management system (DBMS) is described. PRISMA/DB´s high performance is obtained by the use of parallelism for query processing and main memory storage of the entire database. A flexible architecture for experimenting with functionality and performance is obtained using a modular implementation of the system in an object-oriented programming language. The design and implementation of PRISMA/DB are described in detail. A performance evaluation of the system shows that the system is comparable to other state-of-the-art database machines. The prototype implementation of the system runs on a 100-node parallel multiprocessor

Keywords

distributed databases; object-oriented languages; object-oriented programming; parallel processing; query processing; relational databases; storage management; PRISMA/DB; multiprocessor; object-oriented programming language; parallel main memory relational database; performance evaluation; query processing; Application software; Computer science; Database machines; Mathematics; Memory management; Object oriented programming; Parallel processing; Prototypes; Query processing; Relational databases;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-4347

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/69.180605

Filename

180605