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Foil 7 Motivations for Parallel Databases -- III:
Commercial versus Scientific Applications

From untitled presentation ARL Database Tutorial -- February 98. by Gang Cheng Marek Podgorny Chao-Wei Ou


In commercial business world, MPP systems
  • Can find more profitable applications than the scientific world,
  • As SQL intrinsically parallel, one needs only parallelize the database system and not the many SQL applications
    • in contrast for scientific computing, one needs to both produce a parallel compiler and parallelize each application at language and algorithm level
  • Have better cost/performance than the mainframe system
  • Are mature and highly available NOW



© on Mon Oct 13 1997