Recent research shows that traditional database technology does not efficiently exploit the features of modern computer hardware. This problem is especially visible in the area of computationally-intensive applications, where specialized programs achieve performance orders of magnitude higher than DBMSs. In this article we present techniques that aim at bridging this gap. Three issues are discussed: efficient query execution on superscalar CPUs, optimizing disk bandwidth on commodity hardware, and exploiting the features of emerging multi-threaded and multi-core CPUs.

Very Large Data Base Endowment
International Conference on Very Large Databases
Database Architectures

Zukowski, M. (2005). Hardware-Conscious DBMS Architecture for Data-Intensive Applications. In Proceedings of International conference on verly large data bases (VLDB) 2005 (pp. 1–5). Very Large Data Base Endowment.