Using graphics accelerators for query processing over compressed data in parallel database systems

Abstract

This article talks about using graphics processors for query processing in parallel database systems. The goal is to evaluate query execution efficiency over compressed database without decompression on multicore GPUs which support CUDA technology. GPU’s memory size is significantly smaller than modern computer system’s RAM size. This fact affects database’s size can be loaded into GPU’s internal memory, thus computing potential of GPU can not be used efficiently. The new approach presented in this article allows query processing over compressed data on GPU. An emulator of parallel DBMS is developed based on this approach. The similar emulator for a CPU is designed. Results of computational experiments are presented and analysis of efficiency of the proposed approaches is performed.