Modelling test data for performance evaluation of large parallel database machines

Distributed and Parallel Databases

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 5-23

  Bates, Chris ^a   Jelly, Innes ^b   Kerridge, Jon ^c  

^a National Transputer Support Centre   (United Kingdom)

^b SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Application mimic; Data generation tools; Parallel database servers; Performance evaluation; Relational database; Semantic computability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DATA REDUCTION; DATA STRUCTURES; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

APPLICATION MIMIC; DATA GENERATION TOOLS; PARALLEL DATABASE SERVERS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; SEMANTIC COMPUTABILITY; SYSTEM SCALABILITY;

RELATIONAL DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0029732284     PISSN: 09268782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00122146     Document Type: Review

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