In-Memory Data Management: Technology and Applications

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Springer Science & Business Media, Apr 17, 2012 - Business & Economics - 267 pages

In the last fifty years the world has been completely transformed through the use of IT. We have now reached a new inflection point. This book presents, for the first time, how in-memory data management is changing the way businesses are run. Today, enterprise data is split into separate databases for performance reasons. Multi-core CPUs, large main memories, cloud computing and powerful mobile devices are serving as the foundation for the transition of enterprises away from this restrictive model. This book provides the technical foundation for processing combined transactional and analytical operations in the same database. In the year since we published the first edition of this book, the performance gains enabled by the use of in-memory technology in enterprise applications has truly marked an inflection point in the market. The new content in this second edition focuses on the development of these in-memory enterprise applications, showing how they leverage the capabilities of in-memory technology. The book is intended for university students, IT-professionals and IT-managers, but also for senior management who wish to create new business processes.

 

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Contents

Part I An Inflection Point for Enterprise Applications
2
Part II SanssouciDB A Single Source of TruthThrough InMemory
37
Part III How InMemory Changes the Game
165
About the Authors
242
Glossary
245
References
254
Index
263
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Hasso Plattner,Alexander Zeier
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aggregation algorithms allows amounts of data analytical processing analytical queries analytical systems architecture attributes benchmark blades business object cache line cache misses changes Cloud Computing column store column-oriented complex compression cores cost CPU caches created data structures data warehouse database systems DBMS dictionary differential buffer disk encoding enterprise applications example execution flash memory functionality hardware hash table Hasso Plattner implementation In-Memory Data Management in-memory database in-memory technology increase input insert join latency layer layout load machine main memory main store MapReduce memory hierarchy merge process multi-core multi-tenancy multiple node OLAP OLTP operational and analytical operational systems optimal parallel partition passive data performance processor real-time result row-oriented sales order SanssouciDB scan scheduling server shared-nothing single star schema storage stored procedures tasks threads transaction tuples updates users value IDs Zeier

About the author (2012)

Prof. Dr. h.c. Hasso Plattner is a co-founder of SAP AG, where he served as the CEO until 2003 and has since been chairman of the supervisory board. SAP AG is today the leading provider of enterprise software solutions. In his role as chief software advisor, he concentrates on defining the mid- and long- term technology strategy and direction of SAP. Hasso Plattner received his diploma in communications engineering from the University of Karlsruhe. In recent years, he has been focusing on teaching and research in the field of business computing and software engineering at large. In 1998, he founded the Hasso-Plattner-Institute (HPI) in Potsdam, Germany. At the HPI, approximately 480 students are currently pursuing their Bachelors' and Masters' degrees in IT Systems Engineering with the help of roughly 50 professors and lecturers. The HPI currently has about 100 PhD candidates. Hasso Plattner leads one of the research groups at HPI which focuses mainly on In-Memory Data Management for Enterprise Applications and Human-Centered Software Design and Engineering.

Dr. Alexander Zeier graduated from the University of Wuerzburg in business management and successfully completed his studies in information technology at the TU Chemnitz. He worked for a few years as a strategic IT consultant, before gaining his Ph.D. in Supply Chain Management (SCM) at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He has 20 years experience with IT/SAP Systems and started working for SAP in 2002 as product manager with overall responsibility for the SCM Software, SAP's first large In-Memory Application. Since 2006 he has been Deputy Chair Enterprise Platform and Integration Concepts of Prof. Hasso Plattner at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, focusing on real-time In-Memory Enterprise Systems. During that time he has also been Executive Director for the European Section of the MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation. Since March 2012 Dr. Zeier has been working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as Visiting Professor, lecturing and conducting research in the area of In-Memory Technology & Applications, and Supply Chain Innovation. He is the author of more than 150 journal articles and papers and has also published six books on IT and SAP.

Bibliographic information

TitleIn-Memory Data Management: Technology and Applications
SpringerLink : Bücher
AuthorsHasso Plattner, Alexander Zeier
Edition2, illustrated
PublisherSpringer Science & Business Media, 2012
ISBN3642295754, 9783642295751
Length267 pages
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