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FPGAs: a new point in the database design space

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EDBT '10: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Extending Database Technology

Pages 721 - 723

https://doi.org/10.1145/1739041.1739137

Published: 22 March 2010 Publication History

Abstract

In line with the insight that "one size" of databases will not fit all application needs [19] the database community is currently exploring various alternatives to commodity, CPU-based system designs. One particular candidate in this trend are field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), programmable chips that allow tailor-made hardware designs optimized for specific systems, applications, or even user queries.

With a focus on database use, this tutorial introduces into FPGA technology, demonstrates its potential, but also pinpoints some challenges that need to be addressed before FPGA-accelerated database systems can go mainstream. The goal of this tutorial is to develop an intuition of an FPGA development cycle, receive guidelines for a "good" FPGA design, but also learn the limitations that hardware-implemented database processing faces. Our more high-level ambition is to spur a broader interest in database processing on novel hardware technology.

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FPGAs: a new point in the database design space
1. Hardware
  1. Very large scale integration design
    1. VLSI system specification and constraints
2. Information systems
  1. Data management systems
    1. Database management system engines

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EDBT '10: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Extending Database Technology

March 2010

741 pages

ISBN:9781605589459

DOI:10.1145/1739041

Editors:
Ioana Manolescu
INRIA, France
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Stefano Spaccapietra
EPFL, Switzerland
,
Jens Teubner
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
,
Masaru Kitsuregawa
Tokyo University, Japan
,
Alain Leger
Orange - France Telecom R&D, France
,
Felix Naumann
Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany
,
Anastasia Ailamaki
EPFL, Switzerland
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Fatma Ozcan
IBM Almaden Research Center

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