Database Machines

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-VIII

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2. User Experience with the Britton Lee IDM 500

   • Robert W. Taylor

   Pages 1-13

3. RDBM — A Relational Database Machine Based on a Dedicated Multiprocessor System

   • H. Ch. Zeidler

   Pages 15-44

4. RDBM — Special Hardware Design for Sorting

   • W. Teich

   Pages 45-67

5. RDBM — Software Considerations and Performance Evaluation

   • Günther Stiege

   Pages 69-84

6. DBMAC: A Parallel Relational Database Machine

   • M. Missikoff, S. Salza, M. Terranova

   Pages 85-126

7. Massive Parallel Database Computer MPDC and Its Control Schemes for Massively Parallel Processing

   • Y. Tanaka

   Pages 127-158

8. Development of Delta as a First Step to a Knowledge Base Machine

   • Hiroshi Sakai, Kazuhide Iwata, Shigeki Shibayama, Masaaki Abe, Hidenori Itoh

   Pages 159-181

9. A Relational Database Machine for Very Large Information Retrieval Systems

   • Ushio Inoue, Seiichi Kawazu

   Pages 183-201

10. Design and Implementation of SABRE a Deductive and Parallel Database Machine

    • Georges Gardarin, Fabrice Pasquer

    Pages 203-216

11. Introduction to a Mathematical Foundation for Systems Development

    • D. L. Childs

    Pages 217-255

12. A Comparison of Performance of Similar Queries on Similar Databases on Several Relational Systems—Hardware and Software

    • Darrel J. Van Buer, Roy O. Gates, Eric O. Lund

    Pages 257-268

13. Some Remarks on the Interface between Database Machines and Database Applications in Network Environments

    • H. J. Forker, C. Riechmann

    Pages 269-288

14. Sorting and Join Algorithms for Multiprocessor Database Machines

    • Jai Menon

    Pages 289-322

15. From Databases to Artificial Intelligence: A Hardware Point of View

    • R. Gonzalez-Rubio, J. Rohmer

    Pages 323-339

16. Hardware Implementation of Relational Algebra Operations

    • A. K. Sood, M. Abdelguerfi, W. Shu

    Pages 341-380

17. CAFS-ISP — A UK Content Addressable File Store

    • B. J. Boorman

    Pages 381-389

18. Intelligent Cellular Systems: — A New Direction for Total System Design

    • G. E. Quick

    Pages 391-408

19. Bus Arbitration Concepts for the Fifth Generation Advance

    • A. K. Roach, G. E. Quick

    Pages 409-420

20. IKBS and Intelligent Machine Interfaces

    • D. McPhee, R. D. Stein, G. E. Quick

    Pages 421-439

This volume consists of a collection of 28 papers presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute held July 14-27, 1985 in the beautiful resort at Les Arcs, France. The director of this ASI was A. K. Sood and A. H. Qureshi was the co-director. Since its introduction in the early 1970s the relational data model has been widely accepted. Several research and industrial efforts are being undertaken to develop special purpose database machines to implement the relational model. In addition, database machines are being explored for applications such as image processing and information retrieval. In this NATO-ASI the lecturers discussed special purpose database machine architectures from the viewpoint of architecture and hardware detail, software, user needs, theoretical framework and applications. The papers presented were of two types - regular papers and short papers. The research in database machines is being conducted in several countries. This fact is under­ scored when it is noted that papers in this volume are authored by researchers in France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Portugal, Turkey, U.K. and U.S.A. The first paper discusses the experience and applications of users with a commercially available database machine. In the following eight papers the characteristics of six database machines are discussed. The second, third and fourth papers deal with the RDBM project at the Technical University of Braunschweig (Germany). Zeidler discusses the design objectives, architecture and system design of RDBM. Teich presents the hardware utilized for sorting.

• architectures
• database
• database machine
• image processing
• information retrieval
• sorting
• data structures

• Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA

  A. K. Sood, A. H. Qureshi

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