A flexible parallel database system using transputers

Abstract

The design and development of a parallel database machine using a transputer network is presented. To exploit several forms of parallelism for database applications and give maximum flexibility, the system uses a communicating process model both in the implementation of database operations, and in the provision of system services. Following an overview of the system architecture, the development of the major processing modules is described, which includes query evaluation, buffer management and the file system.<>