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Parallel Databases (PDBs) (cont)

Types of parallelism
  • pipeline parallelism
    • multi-step process,   each processor handles one step
    • run in parallel and pipeline result from one to another
  • partition parallelism
    • many processors running in parallel
    • each performs same task on a subset of the data
    • results from processors need to be merged