The idea of a three-tier DBMS architecture may sound familiar to application developers, but it's not quite the same thing. We'll explain this distinction below. Some databases store gargantuan ...

In this talk, I present an architectural overview of the SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse DBMS system. PDW is a massively parallel-processing, share-nothing, scaled-out version of SQL Server for DW ...

a full-fledged parallel, main memory relational database management system (DBMS) is described. PRISMA/DB's high performance is obtained by the use of parallelism for query processing and main memory ...

Architecture of a Database System presents an architectural discussion of DBMS design principles, including process models, parallel architecture, storage system design, transaction system ...