In-Memory Data Management An Inflection Point for Enterprise Applications /

• Main Authors: Plattner, Hasso (Author), Zeier, Alexander (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Subjects: Business.; Information technology.; Business > Data processing.; Computer hardware.; Computer graphics.; Management information systems.; Computer science.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Business and Management.; IT in Business.; Management of Computing and Information Systems.; Computer Hardware.; Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics.; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.

In the last 50 years the world has been completely transformed through the use of IT. We have now reached a new inflection point. Here we present, for the first time, how in-memory computing is changing the way businesses are run. Today, enterprise data is split into separate databases for performan...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword by Prof. John L. Hennessy (Stanford University, California, USA) and Prof. David A. Patterson (University of California at Berkeley, USA). - Preface . – Introduction. - PART I – An Infl ection Point for Enterprise Applications . - 1 Desirability, Feasibility, Viability – The Impact of In-Memory . - 2 Why Are Enterprise Applications So Diverse? . - 3 SanssouciDB –Blueprint for an In-Memory Enterprise Database System . - PART II – SanssouciDB – A Single Source of Truth through In-Memory. - 4 The Technical Foundations of SanssouciDB . - 5 Organizing and Accessing Data in SanssouciDB
• PART III – How In-Memory Changes the Game . - 6 Application Development . - 7 Finally, a Real Business Intelligence System Is at Hand
• 8 Scaling SanssouciDB in the Cloud . - 9 The In-Memory Revolution Has Begun . - References . - Glossary . - Abbreviations . - Index.