Database Machines Sixth International Workshop, IWDM '89, Deauville, France, June 19-21, 1989. Proceedings

This volume contains 24 papers presented at the Sixth International Workshop on Database Machines. The papers cover a wide spectrum of topics including: system architectures, storage structures, associative memory architectures, memory resident systems, deduction and retrospectives on maturing projects. The nature of the papers is highly technical and presumes knowledge of database management systems and familiarity with database machines. The book is representative of the dual trend in the field towards (1) search for new functionability and (2) attention to detail, completeness and performance of prototype implementations.

An object flow computer for database applications.- Design and implementation of KARDAMOM — A set-oriented data flow database machine.- An experiment on response time scalability in Bubba.- Language levels and computational model for a parallel database accelerator.- A graph based data structure for efficient implementation of main memory DBMS's.- Implementing PRISMA/DB in an OOPL.- Database processing models in parallel processing systems.- Parallel sorting methods for large data volumes on a hypercube database computer.- Evaluation of 18-stage pipeline hardware sorter.- A parallel container model for data intensive applications.- Function request shipping in a database machine environment.- Special function unit for statistical aggregation functions.- Generic associative memory for information retrieval.- Design and analysis of a parallel VLSI string search algorithm.- Integrating integrity constraints with database filters implemented in hardware.- Main memory database research directions.- Recovery algorithms for database machines with non-volatile main memory.- An intelligent memory transaction engine.- A parallel transitive closure algorithm using hash-based clustering.- A new version of a parallel production system machine, MANJI-II.- A parallel processing architecture for real-time production systems with truth maintenance.- The Braunschweig Relational Database Machine project results.- The development of the CROSS8 and HC16-186 parallel (database) computers.- Analysis of some experimental results for the TDM.