A disk rotation control part for controlling the rotations of a plurality
of disk devices is provided. The configuration is such that a disk of a
disk device for which an access will not be generated is rotated at a
second rate of speed, which is faster than 0, and slower than a first
rate of speed, which is the rotation speed at access time. DB management
information comprises information denoting which DB schema inside a DB is
stored in which location. The disk rotation control part, based on a
query plan of a query received by the DBMS, and DB management
information, specifies the storage location of a DB schema to be accessed
when this query is processed, and rotates a disk of the disk device
comprising the specified storage location at a first rate of speed.