Database Systems: Concepts, Design and Applications

Chapter 17 Parallel Database Systems

State True/False

1.	True
2.	True
3.	True
4.	False
5.	True
6.	True
7.	True
8.	True
9.	True
10.	False
11.	False
12.	True
13.	True
14.	False
15.	True
16.	True
17.	True
18.	True
19.	True
20.	True
21.	True.

 

Tick (✓) the Appropriate Answer

1.	(b)
2.	(c)
3.	(b)
4.	(c)
5.	(d)
6.	(a)
7.	(d)
8.	(a)
9.	(b)
10.	(c)
11.	(a)
12.	(d)
13.	(a)
14.	(c)
15.	(c)
16.	(a)
17.	(c)
18.	(a)
19.	(a)
20.	(b)
21.	(c)
22.	(d).

 

Fill in the Blanks

1.	Parallel processing
2.	Synchronization
3.	Linear speed-up
4.	Parallel processing
5.	Efficient
6.	Low
7.	Capacity, throughput
8.	Shared-nothing architecture
9.	Higher
10.	Speed-of-light
11.	CPU
12.	Speed-up
13.	Execution time of a task on the original or smaller machine (or original processing time), execution time of same task on the parallel or larger machine (or parallel processing time) ...