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Bubba is a parallel database machine under development at MCC. This paper describes KEV, Bubba’s Operating System kernel. After a brief overview of Bubba a set of requirements for KEV is presented. Our requirements are contrasted with the requirements for conventional, uniprocessor database systems as outlined by Gray, Stonebraker and others. The KEV design is then presented and its features are compared to other distributed operating systems.
Work was done while author was visiting with the Database Program at MCC.
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Wilkinson, W.K., Boral, H. (1988). KEV — A Kernel for Bubba. In: Kitsuregawa, M., Tanaka, H. (eds) Database Machines and Knowledge Base Machines. The Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 43. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1679-4_3
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