*it's more about shifting the burden of scaling backend process from the program...

		gaius on April 16, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Parallel DBMSs faster than MapReduce it's more about shifting the burden of scaling backend process from the programmer to the infrastructure Ermm, that's exactly what parallel query does. Most programmers never even see the query plan. And you mean, from the programmer to the DBA ;-)