- Author
-
H. Pirk
- Title
- Waste Not, Want Not! Managing relational data in asymmetric memories
- Supervisors
- Award date
- 1 May 2015
- Number of pages
- 171
- Publisher
- 's-Hertogenbosch: Boxpress
- Document type
- PhD thesis
- Faculty
- Faculty of Science (FNWI)
- Institute
- Informatics Institute (IVI)
- Abstract
-
In this thesis, we study the management of relational data in modern, i.e., asymmetric computer systems. We explore different strategies to identify asymmetries in persistent data, map them to asymmetries in the memory landscape and, eventually, exploit them to increase query processing performance. To this end, we study memory conscious decomposition and storage of data at different granularities: relations, vertical partitions, single attributes as well as individual bits. In the interest of conciseness, we exclude techniques that require auxilliary data structures such as indices or horizontal partitioning which come with significant maintenance overhead.
Further, we argue that, when managing memory-resident data, the problem of optimal data placement is tightly connected to the efficiency of the query processing paradigm and can, therefore, not be studied in isolation. Consequently, we also investigate the connection between storage model and processing paradigm. In the case of decomposition at partition granularity we identify Just-in-Time compilation as the only viable query processing model. In the case of distribution at the granularity of individual bits, we develop a novel processing paradigm that efficiently exploits the asymmetries in the underlying data and memory components. - Note
- Research conducted at: Universiteit van Amsterdam
Series: SIKS dissertation series 2015-18 - Persistent Identifier
- https://hdl.handle.net/11245/1.474153
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