Tutorial on Parallel Relational Databases including Oracle, DB2PE on nCUBE2 and IBM SP2 HPDC4 Washington DC August 1,1995 NPAC Gang Cheng, Marek Podgorny with Geoffrey Fox Syracuse University 111 College Place Syracuse NY 13244-4100 Abstract of Parallel Relational Database Tutorial Commercial Applications and Motivation for large Parallel Databases Overview of base Technology including parallel architecture and review of sequential SQL NPAC's Parallel Database Installation Parallel Oracle on SP2 and nCUBE DR-LINK high level frontend from Textwise Some experiences with benchmarking --TPC-D Linking of relational databases to the Web Example of use with large UNIX mail system Contrast of pluses and minuses of relational databases with distributed Web databnases