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Scaling-up OLAP Workloads

2017

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In the previous chapter, we showed that scaling-up OLTP workloads on modern hardware is sensitive mostly to the latency of memory accesses. In this chapter, we show that scaling-up OLAP workloads involves further challenges that pertain to the efficient utilization and saturation of the limited number of hardware resources, e.g., the number of hardware contexts and the memory bandwidth.

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