Database parallelism choices greatly impact scalability

Tuesday, October 30, 2007 at 1:58AM
Todd Hoff

Sam Madden in the The Database Column blog covers some database architectures. Quick summary:

Shared-memory systems don't scale well as the shared bus becomes the bottleneck

Shared-disk systems don't scale well either

Shared-nothing scales the best

Article originally appeared on (http://highscalability.com/).