> Transactional databases will probably not benefit hugely from a GPU. What about parallel queries over a Restriction-Union normalized data model? I think the

> Transactional databases will probably not benefit hugely from a GPU. What about parallel queries over a Restriction-Union normalized data model? I think the benefits would be similar in nature to columnar stores as you note: > GPUs tend to lend themselves well to analytics, contrary to transactions. Specifically, columnar databases. When the columns are all of the same data type, and the data locality is high, GPUs perform /very/ well.