Database history: October 2007 Archives

Large databases require the use of parallel computing resources to get good performance. There are several fundamentally different parallel architectures in use today: shared memory, shared disk, and shared nothing. This post examines each approach in terms of how it impacts database scalability. Continue reading "Database parallelism choices greatly impact scalability" »

Mike Stonebraker offers his personal highlights of VLDB 2007, including a historical note on RDBMS design, the need to improve database administration interfaces, new capabilities and tools from Yahoo!, and some thoughts on the OLPC project. Continue reading "Thoughts on the VLDB conference" »