interoperability and support for a wide variety of client tools can enable a parallel server to support
application integration, distributed operations and mixed-application workloads. A variety of com-
puter system architectures allow sharing of resources such as data, software and peripheral devices
among multiple processors. Parallel databases are designed to take advantage of such architectures.
A parallel database is designed to take advantage of executing operations in parallel, by run-
ning multiple instances that share a single physical database. A parallel server processes transac-
tions in parallel by ...
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