+1 On 24 Aug 2016 11:34 p.m., "Julian Hyde" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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/> > >
