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

From General Discussion of Parallel Relational Databases CPS600 Spring Semester -- April 1995. by Gang Cheng Marek Podgorny (Geoffrey Fox) * See also color IMAGE
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

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