W-SQL an interface for scalable, highly parallel, database machines

Kerridge, Jon; Walter, Dave; Guiton, Romola

Abstract

The goal of any designer building a scalable database machine is to ensure that the interface between the relational processing part of the machine and the storage system is independent of the actual storage media. The interface should be as high a level as possible to ensure that as much processing as possible can be encapsulated in the storage level components. The interface design should also consider such aspects as backup and recovery, concurrency management, mixed on-line processing and decision support, support for triggered actions and low-level support for the full range of SQL data manipulations. The W-SQL interface provides such an interface which has been demonstrated in operation with a specifically designed hardware component called a Data Access Component that provides the basic building block of a highly parallel scalable database machine.

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (Published)
• Conference Name: British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD) 1995: Advances in Databases
• Start Date: Jul 12, 1995
• End Date: Jul 14, 1995
• Online Publication Date: Sep 9, 2005
• Publication Date: 1995
• Deposit Date: Jul 19, 2019
• Journal: Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Advances in Databases
• Print ISSN: 0302-9743
• Electronic ISSN: 1611-3349
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 263-276
• Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Series Number: 940
• Series ISSN: 0302-9743
• Book Title: Advances in Databases: 13th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 13 Manchester, United Kingdom, July 12–14, 1995 Proceedings
• ISBN: 9783540601005
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/bfb0000552
• Keywords: W-SQL; databases; scalable; parallel data access component
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1978113