Design and analysis of a multi-backend database system for performance improvement, functionality expansion and capacity growth. Part I

摘要

It is generally known that the use of a single general-purpose digital computerwith dedicated software for database management as a backend to offload themainframe host computer from database management tasks yields no appreciablegains in performance and functionality. Research is therefore being pursued toreplace this software backend approach to database management with an architectureapproach which will yield good performance and new functionality.The aim of the proposed research is to investigate whether for the managanentof very large databases the use of multiple mini-computer systems in a parallel...