Parallel machines are becoming quite common and affordable

• Prices of microprocessors, memory and disks have dropped sharply
• Recent desktop computers feature multiple processors and this trend is projected to accelerate

• Large volumes of transaction data are collected and stored for later analysis.
• Multimedia objects like images are increasingly stored in databases

• Storing large volumes of data
• Processing time-consuming decision-support queries
• Providing high throughput for transaction processing 

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