PRISMA/DB: A Parallel, Main Memory Relational DBMS

  • Authors:
  • P. M. G. Apers;C. A. van den Berg;J. Flokstra;P. W. P. J. Grefen;M. L. Kersten;A. N. Wilschut

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
  • Year:
  • 1992

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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.