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High-level Parallelisation in a Database Cluster: a Feasibility Study Using Document Services
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| Title |
High-level Parallelisation in a Database Cluster: a Feasibility Study Using Document Services |
| Author(s) |
T. Grabs, K. Böhm, H.-J. Schek |
| Type |
inproceedings |
| Booktitle |
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE2001)Heidelberg, Germany |
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| Month |
April 2-6
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| Year |
2001 |
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Abstract
Our concern is the design of a scalable infrastructure for complex
application services. We want to find out if a cluster of commodity
database systems is well-suited as such an infrastructure. To this end,
we have carried out a feasibility study based on document services,
e.g., document insertion and retrieval. We decompose a service request
into short parallel database transactions. Our system, implemented as an
extension of a transaction processing monitor, routes the short
transactions to the appropriate database systems in the cluster.
Routing depends on the data distribution that we have chosen. To avoid
bottlenecks, we distribute document functionality such as term
extraction over the cluster. Extensive experiments show
the following: (1) A relatively small number of components - for example
8 components - already suffices to cope with high workloads of more than 100 concurrently
active clients. (2) Speedup and throughput increase linearly for
insertion operations when increasing the cluster size. These
observations also hold when bundling service invocations into
transactions at the semantic layer. A specialized coordinator component
then implements semantic serializability and atomicity. Our experiments
show that such a coordinator has minimal impact on CPU resource
consumption and on response times.
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