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Parallel Database Management

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Encyclopedia of Database Systems

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Multiprocessor database management

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Parallel database management refers to the management of data in a multiprocessor computer and is done by a parallel database system, i.e., a full-fledge DBMS implemented on a multiprocessor computer. The basic principle employed by parallel DBMS is to partition the data across multiprocessor nodes, in order to increase performance through parallelism and availability through replication. This enables supporting very large databases with very high query or transaction loads.

Parallel database systems can exploit distributed database techniques. In particular, database partitioning is somewhat similar to database fragmentation. Essentially, the solutions for transaction management, i.e., distributed concurrency control, reliability, atomicity, and replication, can be reused. However, the critical issues for parallel database systems are data placement, parallel query processing (including optimization and execution) and load...

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  1. INRIA, LINA, Nantes, Cedex 3, France

    Patrick Valduriez

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  1. College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 266 Ferst Drive, 30332-0765, Atlanta, GA, USA

    LING LIU (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Database Research Group David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. TAMER ÖZSU (Professor and Director, University Research Chair) (Professor and Director, University Research Chair)

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Valduriez, P. (2009). Parallel Database Management. In: LIU, L., ÖZSU, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_1074

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