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Inter-query Parallelism

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User-level parallelism

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Inter-query parallelism is a form of parallelism in the evaluation of database queries, in which several different queries execute concurrently on multiple processors to improve the overall throughput of the system.

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When multiple non-conflicting requests are submitted to a database management system, then the system can execute them in parallel to improve the overall throughput [1]. This form of parallelism is called inter-query parallelism. Inter-query parallelism is a consequence of the concurrency of user requests. It is orthogonal to intra-query parallelism, in which several processors cooperate for the faster execution of a single query [2]. Both forms of parallelism can co-exist in a database management system. Inter-query parallelism is common in on-line transaction processing (OLTP), where multiple concurrent users submit requests to the system. It is a challenge for the database management system to achieve high...

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  1. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Nikos Hardavellas & Ippokratis Pandis

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  1. Nikos Hardavellas
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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. Informatique et Communications, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Station 14, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Anastasia Ailamaki

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Hardavellas, N., Pandis, I. (2016). Inter-query Parallelism. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7993-3_1556-2

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