OS Support for VLDBs: Unix Enhancements for the Teradata Data Base.

John Catozzi, Sorana Rabinovici: OS Support for VLDBs: Unix Enhancements for the Teradata Data Base. VLDB 1995: 696-701

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/vldb/CatozziR95,
  author    = {John Catozzi and
               Sorana Rabinovici},
  editor    = {Umeshwar Dayal and
               Peter M. D. Gray and
               Shojiro Nishio},
  title     = {OS Support for VLDBs: Unix Enhancements for the Teradata Data
               Base},
  booktitle = {VLDB'95, Proceedings of 21th International Conference on Very
               Large Data Bases, September 11-15, 1995, Zurich, Switzerland},
  publisher = {Morgan Kaufmann},
  year      = {1995},
  isbn      = {1-55860-379-4},
  pages     = {696-701},
  ee        = {db/conf/vldb/CatozziR95.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/vldb/95},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

Abstract

This paper presents the parallel enhancements which allowed the port of the Teradata Database from TOS, a proprietary 16-bit Operating System, to anSVR4 Unix system. It gives an architectural overview of how the Teradata Database solves themain VLDB problems: performance and reliability. We will present the transition from the Database Computer DBC/1012 nodes (Interface Processors-IFPs and Access Module Processors-AMPS) to the virtual processors (vprocs), which run concurrently in a collection of SMP nodes. We also present the Parallel Database Environment (PDE) add-on package to Unix that makes this possible. We will discuss the results of our performance enhancement work and the directions for the future.

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