The short answer is yes: Netezza did it way back. The long answer is maybe: hardware acceleration techniques always seem to lose to general purpose hardware in the long run. The one exception, in my opinion, is graphics cards: they are becoming ever more powerful and power-efficient. They seem to be a good candidate platform for some database computations, especially streaming.
Julian > On Aug 24, 2016, at 10:41 AM, Kiril Menshikov <[email protected]> wrote: > > Is it possible to do relational algebra on FPGA? Or how we can accelerate SQL > execution? > > http://www.nextplatform.com/2016/08/24/baidu-takes-fpga-approach-accelerating-big-sql/ > > <http://www.nextplatform.com/2016/08/24/baidu-takes-fpga-approach-accelerating-big-sql/>
