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Databases on Modern Hardware. Summary

2017

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Ever-increasing amounts of data captured with rapid rise in a variety of applications analyzing that data fuel the steady development of data management systems. Modern hardware offers increasing core counts, faster memories, and network interfaces, however, the changes in hardware architectures prevent software systems from automatically benefiting from hardware innovation. In this book, we set out to survey the challenges posed by modern multicore processors to data management software that prevent it from fully exploiting available processing power, both in the vertical dimension (core features and cache hierarchy) and the horizontal dimension (hardware parallelism and memory bandwidth).

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2017

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/64548a30-43ee-4f8e-8e9f-ae0b2ce319a0

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