Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
From: khalid@dcs.shef.ac.uk (Khalid Alnafjan)
Subject: Message passing (shared-nothing) DB machines
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield
Date: 23 May 1995 10:52:52 GMT
Message-ID: <3pseq4$9ra@hippo.shef.ac.uk>


Hello,


As far as I know, most of the Parallel Database machines  are based on 

what is called shared-nothing architecture and uses the Relational data model ?

Can someone give me some reasons, why the  shared-nothing  and the relational 

model ?



Cheers

Khalid


