Parallel Database Systems 101

Summary: Tutorial on parallel DB systems; defines terminology, hardware trends, and architectures (shared-nothing/disk/memory) enabling near-linear speedup. Covers OLTP vs DSS, partitioning, indexing, scan/sort/join, plus a quick benchmark guide with simple sanity tests. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2886
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1995
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 14,255 | 2.20%
DOI: 10.1145/223784.223864

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1. Jim Gray (CRL)

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@inproceedings{gray_sigmod95,
        title = {{Parallel Database Systems 101}},
        author = {Gray, Jim},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '95},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/223784.223864},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/223784.223864},
        year = {1995}
}

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