When Database Systems Meet the Grid
<|reference_start|>When Database Systems Meet the Grid: We illustrate the benefits of combining database systems and Grid technologies for data-intensive applications. Using a cluster of SQL servers, we reimplemented an existing Grid application that finds galaxy clusters in a large astronomical database. The SQL implementation runs an order of magnitude faster than the earlier Tcl-C-file-based implementation. We discuss why and how Grid applications can take advantage of database systems.<|reference_end|>
@article{nieto-santisteban2005when,
    title={When Database Systems Meet the Grid},
    author={Maria A. Nieto-Santisteban, Alexander S. Szalay, Aniruddha R. Thakar,
  William J. O'Mullane, Jim Gray, James Annis},
    journal={Proceedings of CIDR 2005 Conference, Asilomar, CA. Jan. 2005, pp
  154-161},
    year={2005},
    number={Microsoft Technical Report MSR-TR-2004-81},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cs/0502018},
    primaryClass={cs.DC}
}