1 Introduction.- 2 Evaluation criteria and performance indexes.- 3 Modeling and measuring methodologies.- 4 Database workload modeling.- 5 A procedural strategy for database machine analysis.- 6 A performance study on host-backend communication.- 7 Performance modeling of the DBMAC architecture.- 8 Analysis of filtering efficiency in the database machine verso.- 9 A technique for analyzing query execution in a multiprocessor database machine.- 10 Database machine design and performance Annotated bibliography.