Parallel Systems in the Data Warehouse (Data Warehousing Institute Series from Prentice...
by Stephen Morse and David Isaac
Sales Rank: 3011867
$2.92 At Amazon
Hardcover: 395 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1st edition November 1997
Language: English
ISBN-10: 013680604X
ISBN-13: 978-0136806042
Product Dimensions:
10.2 x 7.3 x 1.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
Product Description
Readers will learn to leverage the power of parallel computing in their enterprise-wide data warehouses. This title focuses exclusively on UNIX-based parallel computing and relational databases in the data warehouse. The title answers tough questions for effective purchasing and decision making.
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The power of parallel computing systems is increasingly being brought to bear on enterprise-scale data warehouse applications. This is a complete technical introduction to the use of parallel computing in the data warehouse.Learn how parallel computing systems offer an ideal foundation for data warehousing -- and learn how to make the right strategic and tactical decisions about these technologies. What are the right questions to ask? What aren't the hardware and software vendors telling you? How do benchmarks relate to real-world results? The book covers all three major parallel hardware architectures: symmetric multiprocessors (SMP); distributed memory (DM) or massively parallel machines; and distributed shared memory (DSM) systems. Understand how large queries are decomposed into hundreds of smaller instruction streams for execution by parallel systems; and how data can be sorted in parallel. Examine four real-world hardware/software combinations. Finally, review OLAP, data mining, universal database servers, and implementation considerations.For all data warehouse and database administrators and IT decision-makers.
