Hardware Acceleration for Query Processing: Leveraging FPGAs, SIMD CPUs and 3D Memories

Database management systems have become an indispensable tool for industry, government and academia and form a significant component of modern data centers. They can be used in a multitude of scenarios including online analytical processing, data mining, e-commerce and scientific analysis. The rate at which new data is being produced is growing every year; in 2000 it was estimated that there were 800,000 petabytes of data stored collectively in the world and in 2020 it is estimated that there will be 35 zettabytes . Given 1