He..ro DB: A Concept for Parallel Data Processing on Heterogeneous Hardware

Michael Müller, Thomas Leich, Thilo Pionteck, Gunter Saake, Jens Teubner, Olaf Spinczyk

Abstract: Due to the growing demand on processing power and energy efficiency by today’s data-intensive applications developers have to deal with heterogeneous hardware platforms composed of specialized computing resources. These are highly efficient for certain workloads but difficult to handle from the software engineering perspective. Even state-of-the-art database management systems do not exploit all heterogeneous hardware components, as their characteristics differ significantly. They are thus hard to integrate within a coherent database architecture.