… SQL-style query processing on top with a hardware query plan obtained …-reconfigured to realize arbitrary processing tasks directly in hardware … of dedicated hardware circuits requires considerable engineering efforts and skills …
btw 2011: 738-741… and a compiler that can be employed to implement streaming queries as hardware circuits on FPGAs. Glacier consists of a library of compositional hardware modules …
SIGMOD 2010: 1159-1162 [doi]