Performance Measurements of Tertiary Storage Devices

摘要

In spite of the rapid decrease in magnetic disk prices, tertiary storage (i.e., removable media in a robotic storage library) is becoming increasingly popular. The fact that so much data can be stored encourages applications that use ever more massive data sets. Application drivers include multimedia databases, data warehouses, scientific databases, and digital libraries and archives. The database research community has responded with investigations into systems integration, performance modeling, and performance optimization.