Database machine

<h2 id="history">History</h2>
<p><a href="/facts/Britton_Lee,_Inc./bx7p6vBm">Britton-Lee</a> (IDM), <a href="/facts/Tandem_Computers/m8syzN1q">Tandem</a> (<a href="/facts/NonStop_(server_computers)/VuLrDEUQ">Non-Stop System</a>), and <a href="/facts/Teradata/sarnALYT">Teradata</a> (<a href="/facts/DBC_1012/HeSp2IcN">DBC</a>) all offered early commercial specialized database machines.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> A more recent example was <a href="/facts/Oracle_Exadata/kJP786dd">Oracle Exadata</a>.
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<h2 id="criticism-and-suggested-remedy">Criticism and suggested remedy</h2><p>According to <a href="/facts/Julie_McCann/QmSzJg7A">Julie McCann</a>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a>
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<blockquote><p>"Finally, back in 1983 Boral predicted the demise of the Database Machine (DBM) and he was right to an extent [5].<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> DBM <a href="/facts/Computer_architecture/tHtwxgR2">architectures</a> based on specialised hardware or tightly coupled to specific specialised machines were always going to be problematic. However as <a href="/facts/Component-based_software_engineering/eW5wvSHC">componentisation</a> dissolves the <a href="/facts/DBMS/VYcpkevb">DBMSs</a> architecture into components and that this is integrated, without boundaries, with the <a href="/facts/Operating_system/8XTuvMh2">operating system</a> (which in turn only activated the components that are required by the DB function, thus tailoring the architecture down to the <a href="/facts/Bare_metal/Dw9WCYhk">metal</a>), means that at that instant the system becomes effectively a Database Machine but potentially without the problems of standardisation and portability of the past."</p></blockquote>
<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Content_Addressable_File_Store/xWV22k6g">Content Addressable File Store</a> (CAFS)</li></ul>

<h2 id="further-reading">Further reading</h2>
<ul><li>Berra, P. Bruce. “Data base machines.” <i>SIGIR Forum</i> 12, 3 (Winter 1977), 4–23. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/1095317.1095318">https://doi.org/10.1145/1095317.1095318</a></li>
<li>Banerjee, Jayanta. “Data structuring and indexing for data base machines.” In <i>Proceedings of the fifth workshop on Computer architecture for non-numeric processing (CAW '80).</i> Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 11–16. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/800083.802687">https://doi.org/10.1145/800083.802687</a></li>
<li>Song, Siang Wun. “<a href="http://sites.computer.org/debull/81DEC-CD.pdf">A Survey and Taxonomy of Database Machines.</a>” <i>IEEE Database Eng. Bull.</i> 4 (1981): 3-13.</li>
<li>Hoffer, Jeffrey A.; Alexander, Mary B. “The diffusion of database machines.” <i>SIGMIS Database</i> 23, 2 (Spring 1992): 13–19. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/141342.141352">https://doi.org/10.1145/141342.141352</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Ricardo, Catherine M. (2002). "Database Machines". Encyclopedia of Information Systems. Academic Press. pp. 403–410. doi:10.1016/B0-12-227240-4/00027-7. ISBN 978-0-12-227240-0. <a href="978-0-12-227240-0" target="_blank">978-0-12-227240-0</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Mccann, Julie A. (2003). "The Database Machine: Old Story, New Slant?" (PDF). First Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research, CIDR 2003, Asilomar, CA, USA, January 5-8, 2003, Online Proceedings. Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR) (1 ed.). Asilomar, CA, USA. <a href="/wiki/Julie_McCann" target="_blank">/wiki/Julie_McCann</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Boral, Haran; DeWitt, David J. (1983). Database Machines: An Idea Whose Time Has Passed? A Critique of the Future of Database Machines (Report). <a href="https://minds.wisconsin.edu/handle/1793/58446?show=full" target="_blank">https://minds.wisconsin.edu/handle/1793/58446?show=full</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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