What is grid technology and can it improve database performance?

What is grid technology and can it improve database performance?

What is grid technology (in terms of database)? Its advantages and disadvantages?

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Grid technology is the use if parallel processing to speed up database performance. The advantage with it is the speed with which it works. However, the disadvantage is complexity and cost.

This was first published in September 2007

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