Managing Large Volumes of Data
Partitioning and parallelism are crucial for VLDB
Parallelism for all operations
DBA operations: loading, index-creation, table-creation,
data-modification, backup and recovery
End-user operations: Queries
Unbounded scalability: Real Application Clusters
Partitioning provides incremental operations for:
Data loading
Indexing
Referential Integrity
Backup and recovery