Database Machine Performance: Modeling Methodologies and Evaluation Strategies

✍ Scribed by F. Cesarini, S. Salza (auth.), Francesca Cesarini, Silvio Salza (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 259
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 257
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is focused on the performance evaluation of database machines, i.e., special-purpose architectures specifically meant to improve the efficiency of database applications. The topic is of primary interest because of the need to compare these systems among themselves and with traditional database management systems. The book gathers the experience of several European research groups in modeling and analyzing the database machine architectures they have proposed. It deals both with the main methodological issues and with the detailed analysis of some relevant problems. It also includes an extensive annotated bibliography with more than one hundred references and several keys for the access to the literature.

✦ Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction....Pages 1-17
Chapter 2 Evaluation criteria and performance indexes....Pages 18-32
Chapter 3 Modeling and measuring methodologies....Pages 33-49
Chapter 4 Database workload modeling....Pages 50-94
Chapter 5 A procedural strategy for database machine analysis....Pages 95-128
Chapter 6 A performance study on host-backend communication....Pages 129-146
Chapter 7 Performance modeling of the DBMAC architecture....Pages 147-165
Chapter 8 Analysis of filtering efficiency in the database machine verso....Pages 166-183
Chapter 9 A technique for analyzing query execution in a multiprocessor database machine....Pages 184-207
Chapter 10 Database machine design and performance evaluation: Annotated bibliography....Pages 208-250

✦ Subjects

Models and Principles; Database Management