Parallel Database Systems

This proceedings volume of a workshop on parallel database systems organized by the PRISMA (Parallel Inference and Storage Machine) project gives a thorough survey and an in-depth overview of the PRISMA system.

Inhalt
Languages for parallel programming.- Relational algebra operations.- An overview of parallel strategies for transitive closure on algebraic machines.- Data management with massive memory: A summary.- An approach to implement dynamically defined complex objects.- Experience with MIMD message-passing systems: Towards general purpose parallel computing.- Parallel associative processing for knowledge bases.- Performance estimates of a join.- The EDS parallel relational database system.- PRISMA, a platform for experiments with parallelism.- The PRISMA experiment.- Back-end aspects of a portable POOL-X implementation.- Logging and recovery in PRISMA.- Parallel handling of integrity constraints.- Performance analysis of a dynamic query processing scheme.- Evaluation of a communication architecture by means of simulation.- A parallel implementation of the EQUIP expert system.- POOL-X and its implementation.- Automatic recovery of a parallel stable file system.- Duplicates and translation of nested SQL queries into XRA.- The POOMA architecture.- The POOMA operating system.- Parallel query execution in PRISMA/DB.