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Publication
SIGMOD Record
Paper
IBM's Relational DBMS Products: Features and Technologies
Abstract
This paper very briefly summarizes the features and technologies implemented in the IBM relational DBMS products. The topics covered include record and index management, concurrency control and recovery methods, commit protocols, query optimization and execution techniques, high availability and support for parallelism and distributed data. Some indications of likely future product directions are also given. © 1993, ACM. All rights reserved.