skip to main content
10.1145/1500518.1500553acmotherconferencesArticle/Chapter ViewAbstractPublication PagesafipsConference Proceedingsconference-collections
research-article
Free access

Design decisions for the intelligent database machine

Published: 19 May 1980 Publication History

Abstract

The Intelligent Database Machine (IDM), manufactured by Britton-Lee Inc., is a back-end processor and storage system that contains a complete data management system. It includes specialized hardware to perform data management functions. It is our contention that the designers of a database machine must choose a focus for their machine which strongly influences other design decisions. The IDM is low cost, high performance machine designed to support "midrange" users. This paper presents the reasons for this choice, and the resultant design issues.

References

[1]
{BAUM76} Baum, Richard I., Hsiao, David K., and Kannan, Krishnatmuti, "The Architecture of a Database Computer - Part I: Concepts and Capabilities," Technical Report OSU-CISRC-TR-76-1, Computer and Information Research Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (National Technical Information Service Number AD-A034 154).
[2]
{BAYE70} Bayer, R. and McCreight, E., "Organization and Maintenance of Large Ordered Indices," Proc. 1970 ACM-SIGFIDET Workshop on Data Description, Access, and Control, Houston, Texas, Nov. 1970.
[3]
{CALE79} Cale, E. G., et al., "Price/Performance Patterns of U.S. Computer Systems," CACM, Volume 22, Number 4, April 1979.
[4]
{DEWI79} Dewitt, D. J., "Query Execution in DIRECT," Proceedings, SIGMOD International Conference on the Management of Data, 1979, pp. 13--22.
[5]
{GROS75} Grosch, H. A., "Grosch's law revisited," Computerworld 8, 16, April 16, 1975.
[6]
{HAWT79} Hawthorn, Paula, "Evaluation and Enhancement of the Performance of Relational Database Management Systems," Electronics Research Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, Ca., Memo Number M79--70, December, 1979.
[7]
{IBM66} IBM Corporation, "OS ISAM Logic," IBM, White Plains, N.Y., 1966, GY28--6618.
[8]
{KNUT73} Knuth, D. The Art of Computer Programming, Vol. 3, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass., 1973.
[9]
{LIPO78} Lipovski, G. J., "Architectural Features of CASSM: a Context Addressed Segment Sequential Memory," Proceedings, Fifth Annual IEEE Symposium on Computer Architecture, April, 1978.
[10]
{OZKA78} Ozarahan, E. A., Schuster, S. A., and Sevcik, K. C., "Performance Evaluation of a Relational Associative Processor," AFIPS Conference Proceedings, Vol. 44, 1975, pp. 379--388.
[11]
{STON79} Stonebraker, Michael, "MUFFIN: A Distributed Database Machine," Electronics Research Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, Ca., Memo Number M79--28, May 1, 1979.

Cited By

View all

Comments

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

cover image ACM Other conferences
AFIPS '80: Proceedings of the May 19-22, 1980, national computer conference
May 1980
932 pages
ISBN:9781450379236
DOI:10.1145/1500518
Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected]

Sponsors

  • AFIPS: American Federation of Information Processing Societies

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Publication History

Published: 19 May 1980

Permissions

Request permissions for this article.

Check for updates

Qualifiers

  • Research-article

Contributors

Other Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

  • Downloads (Last 12 months)49
  • Downloads (Last 6 weeks)10
Reflects downloads up to 18 Feb 2025

Other Metrics

Citations

Cited By

View all
  • (2007)Relational databaseACM Turing award lectures10.1145/1283920.1283937Online publication date: 1-Jan-2007
  • (1990)Application of a DBMS in a large command, control, and information systemIEEE Conference on Aerospace Applications10.1109/AERO.1990.109087(223-233)Online publication date: 1990
  • (1989)Relational Database: A Practical Foundation for ProductivityReadings in Artificial Intelligence and Databases10.1016/B978-0-934613-53-8.50009-1(60-68)Online publication date: 1989
  • (1988)The Join Algorithms on a Shared-Memory Multiprocessor Database MachineIEEE Transactions on Software Engineering10.1109/32.905414:11(1668-1683)Online publication date: 1-Nov-1988
  • (1987)Overview of DBMS: a high performance database management systemProceedings of the 1987 Fall Joint Computer Conference on Exploring technology: today and tomorrow10.5555/42040.42118(452-460)Online publication date: 1-Dec-1987
  • (1987)Extending a database system with proceduresACM Transactions on Database Systems10.1145/27629.2763112:3(350-376)Online publication date: 1-Sep-1987
  • (1987)Design of a Functionally Distributed, Multiprocessor Database Machine Using Data Flow AnalysisIEEE Transactions on Computers10.1109/TC.1987.167695936:6(650-666)Online publication date: 1-Jun-1987
  • (1986)A Crash Recovery Scheme for a Memory-Resident Database SystemIEEE Transactions on Computers10.1109/TC.1986.167684535:9(839-843)Online publication date: 1-Sep-1986
  • (1986)A Special-Function Unit for Sorting and Sort-Based Database OperationsIEEE Transactions on Computers10.1109/TC.1986.167671535:12(1071-1077)Online publication date: 1-Dec-1986
  • (1986)A Relational Database Machine for Very Large Information Retrieval SystemsDatabase Machines10.1007/978-3-642-82937-6_8(183-201)Online publication date: 1986
  • Show More Cited By

View Options

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

PDF

eReader

View online with eReader.

eReader

Login options

Figures

Tables

Media

Share

Share

Share this Publication link

Share on social media