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The Effect of Target Applications on the Design of Database Machines.

Paula B. Hawthorn: The Effect of Target Applications on the Design of Database Machines. SIGMOD Conference 1981: 188-197
@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/sigmod/Hawthorn81,
  author    = {Paula B. Hawthorn},
  editor    = {Y. Edmund Lien},
  title     = {The Effect of Target Applications on the Design of Database Machines},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1981 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on
               Management of Data, Ann Arbor, Michigan, April 29 - May 1, 1981},
  publisher = {ACM Press},
  year      = {1981},
  pages     = {188-197},
  ee        = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/582318.582347, db/conf/sigmod/Hawthorn81.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/sigmod/81},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}
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Abstract

Specialized, single function processors can be built to be faster and cheaper than general purpose processors. Most database machines use such special purpose processors to manipulate data, with a general purpose managing processor to control the special purpose processors and perform utility functions. In this paper, the organization and use of these data manipulation processors is explored. Database machines are classified into single data manipulation processor systems, multiple disk-associated data manipulation processor systems, and multiple cache-associated processor systems. Examples of actual database machines are given for each category.

Application types are classified into business, bibliographic search, and statistical analysis systems. A metric is developed to compare the performance of the categories of database machines with respect to the application types. The metric is the effective instruction rate, which is comparable to the instruction rate (millions of instructions per second) for conventional computers. It is shown that the effective instruction rate is highly sensitive to the proportion of work performed in the database machine's data manipulation processors. Therefore, determining the work that must be performed in the machine's managing processor is found to be important to determining the performance of the machine.

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Referenced by

  1. Paula B. Hawthorn: Microprocessor Assisted Tuple Access, Decompression and Assembly for Statistical Database Systems. VLDB 1982: 223-233
  2. Paula B. Hawthorn: A Methodology for the Determination of Statistical Database Machine Performance Requirements. SSDBM 1981: 231-232
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