  In this paper, we propose a radical new approach for scale-out distributed
DBMSs. Instead of hard-baking an architectural model, such as a shared-nothing
architecture, into the distributed DBMS design, we aim for a new class of
so-called architecture-less DBMSs. The main idea is that an architecture-less
DBMS can mimic any architecture on a per-query basis on-the-fly without any
additional overhead for reconfiguration. Our initial results show that our
architecture-less DBMS AnyDB can provide significant speed-ups across varying
workloads compared to a traditional DBMS implementing a static architecture.
