1. Edition - October 2008
122.- Euro
2008. 554 Pages, Hardcover
- Professional Book -
ISBN-10: 0-470-10762-6
ISBN-13: 978-0-470-10762-1 - John Wiley & Sons






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Short description
High Performance Parallel Database Processing and Grid Databases targets the theoretical/conceptual details needed to form a base of understanding and then delivers information on development, implementations, and analytical modeling of parallel databases. This includes key information on new developments with grid databases. This book uses a theoretical and practical balance to support in-depth study of parallel query processing offered by modern DBMS as well as hands on experience of parallel query algorithms development, implementation, and analysis.

From the contents
PART I: INTRODUCTION.

Chapter 1: Introduction.

Chapter 2: Analytical Models.

PART II: BASIC QUERY PARALLELISM.

Chapter 3: Parallel Search.

Chapter 4: Parallel Sort and Group-By.

Chapter 5: Parallel Join.

PART III: ADVANCED PARALLEL QUERY PROCESSING.

Chapter 6: Parallel GroupBy-Join .

Chapter 7: Parallel Indexing.

Chapter 8: Parallel Universal Quantification ? Collection Join Queries.

Chapter 9: Parallel Query Scheduling and Optimization.

PART IV: GRID DATABASES.

Chapter 10: Transactions in Distributed and Grid Databases.

Chapter 11: Grid Concurrency Control.

Chapter 12: Grid Transaction Atomicity and Durability.

Chapter 13: Replica Management in Grids.

Chapter 14: Grid Atomic Commitment in Replicated Data.

PART V: OTHER DATA INTENSIVE APPLICATIONS.

Chapter 15: Parallel Online Analytic Processing (OLAP) and Business Intelligence.

Chapter 16: Parallel Data Mining - Association Rules and Sequential Patterns.

Chapter 17: Parallel Clustering and Classification.

04701268923ENAcknowledgments.

The Titans and the Players.

Remarks from M&A Titans and Players.

Introduction.

Chapter 1. Genesis: Wall Street, its Business and Culture.

Chapter 2. Godfathers - Flom and Lipton.

Chapter 3. Seducers - Harris and Rohatyn.

Chapter 4. Systematizer - Goldman Sachs.

Chapter 5. Originators - Morgan Stanley.

Chapter 6. Attack or defend.

Chapter 7. An Accountant, Feuds and the Wasserstein discovery.

Chapter 8. The Cult of Greenhill, California.

Chapter 9. Stovepipes.

Chapter 10. Fall and Rise.

Chapter 11. ``The Genius Franchise''.

Chapter 12. Stagnation and Implosion.

Chapter 13. The Rise of Drexel.

Chapter 14. Crime and Punishment.

Chapter 15. A Voice in the Wilderness.

Chapter 16. Intrigue and Resignations.

Chapter 17. New Horizons.

Notes.

References.

About the Author.

Index.