Monet And Its Geographic Extensions: A Novel Approach to High Performance GIS Processing

Reference: Peter A. Boncz, Wilko Quak, Martin L. Kersten: Monet And Its Geographic Extensions: A Novel Approach to High Performance GIS Processing. EDBT 1996: 147-163

Motivation:

Features:

• Decomposed Storage Model (DSM)
  • Involves the decomposition of all relations into binary (association) tables, one for each attribute in the original relation
• Main memory dbs
• Algebra-extensible
• Shared-memory parallelism
  • All processes share the same memory (or address) space

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