Evaluation of conversion to a back-end data base management system

Abstract

This paper presents a methodology for, and an evaluation of the feasibility of converting a typical data processing system to a data base management system. This methodology is applied to a particular system.The data base management system under evaluation uses a back-end mlnl-computer to perform the data management functions.The evaluation is made in terms of changes in system resources, program requirements, and human factors.The results of this study provide considerable insight into the problem of conversion to a data base management system, and suggest guidelines for the evaluation of any proposed data base conversions.

Data access in distributed data base management systems

“…While terminology in the various reports varies, their basic structures are very similar. The architecture of distributed data base management described in this paper is further explained in [18].…”

“…The utilization of an interprocessor communications Backend data base management systems have been shown to be feasible approaches to the enhancement of data processing systems [2,14,18]. Further, it has been suggested that a backend data base system minimizes the task-switching overhead on the host CPU and provides for a smaller primary memory requirement for both data base system and application software on the host CPU in comparison to a single machine DBMS.…”