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This paper describes the parallel Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) currently being designed and built by the ESPRIT II EDS project. The system components include a high performance distributed store parallel machine consisting of up to 256 processing elements connected by a delta network, an operating system designed for the parallel system, and a RDBMS which exploits both inter and intra query parallelism. The paper examines a vertical slice through the system, showing how the RDBMS, operating system and hardware contribute to the efficient parallel execution of database queries.
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Watson, P., Townsend, P. (1991). The EDS parallel relational database system. In: America, P. (eds) Parallel Database Systems. PDS 1990. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 503. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-54132-2_55
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