Editing Database (section)

===Integrated approach===
{{Main|Database machine}}

In the 1970s and 1980s, attempts were made to build database systems with integrated hardware and software. The underlying philosophy was that such integration would provide higher performance at a lower cost. Examples were [[IBM System/38]], the early offering of [[Teradata]], and the [[Britton Lee, Inc.]] database machine.

Another approach to hardware support for database management was [[International Computers Limited|ICL]]'s [[Content Addressable File Store|CAFS]] accelerator, a hardware disk controller with programmable search capabilities. In the long term, these efforts were generally unsuccessful because specialized database machines could not keep pace with the rapid development and progress of general-purpose computers. Thus most database systems nowadays are software systems running on general-purpose hardware, using general-purpose computer data storage. However, this idea is still pursued in certain applications by some companies like [[Netezza]] and Oracle ([[Exadata]]).