Lecture Database system concepts - Chapter 21: Parallel databases
Lecture Database system concepts - Chapter 21: Parallel databases
This chapter is suitable for an advanced course, but can also be used for independent studyprojectsbystudentsofa first course. The chapter covers several aspects of the design of parallel database systems partitioning of data, parallelization of individual relational operations, and parallelization of relational expressions. The chapter also briefly covers some systems issues, such as cache coherency and failure resiliency.