Design and Analysis of A Multi-Backend Database System for Performance Improvement, Functionality Expansion and Capacity Growth. Part I.
David K. Hsiao, M. Jaishankar Menon · Calhoun: The Naval Postgraduate School Institutional Archive (Naval Postgraduate School) · 1983
It is generally known that the use of a single general-purpose digital computer with dedicated software for database management as a backend to offload the mainframe host computer from database management tasks yields no appreciable gains in performance and functionality. Research is therefore being pursued to replace this software backend approach to database management with an architecture approach which will yield good performance and new functionality. The aim of the proposed research is to investigate whether for the managanent of very large databases the use of multiple mini-computer systems in a parallel...