09-05-2015, 02:38 PM
Parallel machines are becoming quite common and affordable
Prices of microprocessors, memory and disks have dropped sharply
Recent desktop computers feature multiple processors and this trend is projected to accelerate
Databases are growing increasingly large
Large volumes of transaction data are collected and stored for later analysis.
Multimedia objects like images are increasingly stored in databases
Large-scale parallel database systems increasingly used for:
Storing large volumes of data
Processing time-consuming decision-support queries
Providing high throughput for transaction processing