Basic HTML version of Foils prepared 7 October 97

Foil 6 Motivations for Parallel Databases -- II:
Inadequacies with Current Mainframe Solutions

From untitled presentation ARL Database Tutorial -- February 98. by Gang Cheng Marek Podgorny Chao-Wei Ou
Conventional (mainframe) systems unable to support
  • time-critical queries
  • simultaneous OLTP and decision support systems
  • gigantic scientific and commercial databases
  • complex queries (approximate matching, pattern recognition ...)
  • sophisticated optimization as in market segmentation

© on Mon Oct 13 1997