Rinda: a relational database processor with hardware specialized for searching and sorting

Abstract

Rinda, a database processor that accelerates nonindexed relational database queries, is described. Rinda is composed of content search processors and relational operational accelerating processors; the former, search rows stored in disk storage, and the latter sort rows stored in the main memory. The processors connect to a general-purpose host computer with channel interfaces. Performance results show that Rinda executes queries three to 100 times faster then conventional database-management system software in a benchmark system.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>