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Parallel DBMSs (cont)

DBMSs are a success story in application of parallelism
  • can process many data elements (tuples) at the same time
  • can create pipelines of query evaluation steps
  • don't require special hardware
  • can hide paralleism within the query evaluator
    • application programmers don't need to change habits
Compare this with effort to do parallel programming.