MUFFIN: A Distributed Data Base Machine.
Michael R Stonebraker · Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) · 1979
This paper discusses the design of MUFFIN (MUltiple Fast or Faster INgres), a distributed data base machine being developed at Berkeley. The basic design goals are higher transaction rates than achievable through conventional means, resiliency to failures and support for a wide variety of data bases in terms of size and complexity of transactions. The design exploits the possibilities of parallelism among large units of work, variable size RAM caches, no concept of 'GOD' and streamlining of modules through specialization of function. The design is contrasted with conventional distributed data base systems and with other proposals for multiprocessors data base machines. (Author)