January 2008
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
8h 1m
English
As we mentioned before, there have been attempts at commercial database engines built on proprietary hardware. They have generally lost to virtual machines on standard hardware. There are various schemes for parallelizing data retrieval, updates, and insertions. But as a generalization, they depend on having a bus that connects multiple processors that are in charge of a storage device (usually a relatively cheap, smaller disk drive). Given a statement to execute, they use a proprietary algorithm to locate the data and do the work.
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