Database management systems have become an indispensable tool for industry, government, and academia, and form a significant component of modern datacenters. They can be used in a multitude of scenarios, including online analytical processing, data mining, e-commerce, and scientific analysis. Given the exponential growth in new data produced each year, there is a pressure on software and hardware developers to create datacenters that can cope with increasing requirements. The authors look at the organization of a modern relational database management system and propose optimizations and redesign for the storage access, memory, and CPU.