A Performance Evaluation of Database Machine Architectures.

Abstract

The rapid advances in the development of low-cost computer hardware have led to many proposals for the use of this hardware to improve the performance of database management systems. Usually the design proposals are quite vague about the performance of the system with respect to a given data management application. In this paper we develop an analytical model of the performance of a conventional database management system and four generic database machine architectures. This model is then used to compare the performance of each type of machine with a conventional DBMS. We demonstrate that no one type of database machine is best for executing all types of queries. We also show that for several classes of queries certain database machine designs which have been proposed are actually slower than a DBMS on a conventional processor. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA110053

Entities

People

  • David J. Dewitt
  • Paula B. Hawthorn

Organizations

  • University of Wisconsin Madison Department of Computer Science

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  • Energy and Power Technologies

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  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Contracts
  • Data Management
  • Database Management Systems
  • Databases
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States
  • Wisconsin

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  • Computer science
  • Engineering

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  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development