Project code: Mercury
Research group: Database Architectures and Information Access (INS1)

Project coordinator: Martin Kersten

The objective of the project is to promote wider use of parallel database systems by helping the user to visualise and understand the way his/her workload would be handled by particular parallel systems and configurations. The user here is taken to include the system developer, the database administrator and the service provider (e.g. system integrator or platform vendor).

For more details see the Mercury homepage.

Members
Kees van 't Hoff, Martin Kersten.

Key publications

• Mercury Experimental Site: Interface to Existing components
  K. van't Hoff, Mercury WP2C/T2/d3, 1998.  
• Specification of STP Steady Module
  K. van't Hoff, Mercury WP2C/T2/d1, 1998.  
• Specification for the SMART-STP interface
  K. van't Hoff, M. L. Kersten, Mercury WP2C/T3/d1, 1997.  
• Tool Evaluation: Experimentation modules
  K. van't Hoff, M. L. Kersten, Mercury WP2C/T3, 1997.  
• Design of Experimentation platform interfaces
  K. van't Hoff, Mercury WP2C/T1/d1, 1997.

Cooperation

• Heriot Watt University
• ICL
• Ifatec
• ING bank