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The MEDUSA Project: Autonomous Data Management in a Shared-Nothing Parallel Database Machine

Summary: MEDUSA is a shared-nothing parallel DBMS prototype using off-the-shelf hardware (INMOS Transputers) to enable autonomous, self-tuning data management. It provides a reduced SQL92 interface (MedusaSQL) and a backup algorithm for logical files enabling parallel backups with ongoing queries, outlining SQL92 full support and distribution research. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
2829
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1994
Pagerank
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14,305 | 1.86%
DOI
10.1145/191839.191955

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@inproceedings{bryan_sigmod94,
        title = {{The MEDUSA Project: Autonomous Data Management in a Shared-Nothing Parallel Database Machine}},
        author = {Bryan, G. M. and Moore, W. E. and Curry, B. J. and Lodge, K. W. and Geyer, J.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '94},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/191839.191955},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/191839.191955},
        year = {1994}
}

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