High-performance operations using a compressed database architecture

Future database applications win require significant improvements in perfor mance beyond the capabilities of conventional disk based systems. This pape r describes a new approach to database systems architecture, which is inten ded to take advantage of solid-state memory in combination with data compre ssion to provide substantial performance improvements. The compressed data representation is tailored to the data manipulation operations requirements , The architecture has been implemented and measurements of performance are compared to those obtained using other high-performance database systems. The results indicate from one to five orders of magnitude speed-up in retri eval, equivalent or slightly faster performance during insertion land compr ession) of data, while achieving approximately one order of magnitude compr ession in data volume, The resultant architecture is thus capable of greate r cost/effectiveness than conventional approaches.