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Foil 8 Motivations for Parallel Databases -- II:
Inadequacies with Current Mainframe Solutions

From Full Relational Database HPDC-4 Presentation HPDC-4 Tutorial/CPS616 Spring95 -- August 1, Pentagon City Virginia. by Gang Cheng Marek Podgorny (Geoffrey Fox) * See also color IMAGE
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
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