Memory resident databases: reliability, compression and performance.

Cockshott, W Paul; Cowie, Alex; Russell, Gordon; McGregor, D

Abstract

The paper argues that recent developments in non-volatile solid-state store allow a new implementation paradigm for databases. This involves replacing slow rotating storage with all-semiconductor data stores. A mechanism is presented to achieve high reliability with this medium. The relatively higher costs of semiconductor store make data compression advantageous. It is argued that relational databases are well suited to this. Empirical measures of the potential for compression in a commercial database are presented.

• Report Type: Technical Report
• Publication Date: 1993
• Deposit Date: Aug 27, 2010
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Keywords: non-volatile solid-state store; slow rotating storage; all-semiconductor data stores; data compression; relational databases
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/3190