High-performance parallel database processing and grid databases /

• Corporate Author: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
• Other Authors: Taniar, David., Leung, Clement H. C., Rahayu, Johanna Wenny.
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, [2008]
• Series: Wiley series on parallel and distributed computing.
• Subjects: High performance computing.; Parallel processing (Electronic computers); Computational grids (Computer systems); COMPUTERS > Systems Architecture > Distributed Systems & Computing.; Grid Computing.; Paralleles Datenbanksystem.; Electronic books.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

"The growth in grid databases, coupled with the utility of parallel query processing, presents an important opportunity to understand and utilize high-performance parallel database processing within a major database management system (DBMS). This important new book provides readers with a funda...

Table of Contents:

• Part I: Introduction: Introduction
• Analytical models
• Part II: Basic query parallelism: Parallel search
• Parallel sort and group-by
• Parallel join
• Part III: Advanced parallel query processing
• Parallel groupby-join
• Parallel indexing
• Parallel universal qualification
• collection join queries
• Parallel query scheduling and optimization
• Part IV: Grid databases: Transactions in distributed and grid databases
• Grid concurrency control
• Grid transaction atomicity and durability
• Replica management in grids
• Grid atomic commitment in replicated data
• Part V: Other data intensive applications: Parallel online analytic processing (OLAP) and business intelligence
• Parallel data mining
• association rules and sequential patterns
• Parallel clustering and classification.