DB - Database Engines on Multicores, Why Parallelize

Database Engines on Multicores, Why Parallelize When You Can Distribute.pdf Multicore computers pose a substantial challenge to infrastructure software such as operating systems or databases. Such software typically evolves slower than the underlying hardware, and with multicore it faces structural limitations that can be solved only with radical architectural changes. In this paper we argue that, as has been suggested for operating systems, databases could treat multicore architectures