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Introduction
Purpose
This White Paper is designed to provide a broad technical overview
of THOR™ - The Hitachi Object Relational Database System.
Audience
The audience for this White Paper is managers, executives, system
administrators, and decision-makers with responsibility for large-scale
DBMS systems.
Future White Papers
Forthcoming additional White Papers will discuss the technical
details of THOR and its administration capabilities and tools
in greater depth.
Executive Summary
We have extracted all the major ideas in this paper into an Executive
Summary, which makes up the next section of this paper.
Contents of this White Paper
In the rest of this paper, we detail how THOR's hardware and software
architecture combine to provide relief from the growth and management
concerns currently facing DBMS managers and administrators.
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