Providing scalable database services on the cloud

  • Authors:

  • Chun Chen;Gang Chen;Dawei Jiang;Beng Chin Ooi;Hoang Tam Vo;Sai Wu;Quanqing Xu

  • Affiliations:

  • Zhejiang University, China;Zhejiang University, China;National University of Singapore;National University of Singapore;National University of Singapore;National University of Singapore;National University of Singapore

  • Venue:
  • WISE'10 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Web information systems engineering
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The Cloud is fast gaining popularity as a platform for deploying Software as a Service (SaaS) applications. In principle, the Cloud provides unlimited compute resources, enabling deployed services to scale seamlessly. Moreover, the pay-as-you-go model in the Cloud reduces the maintenance overhead of the applications. Given the advantages of the Cloud, it is attractive to migrate existing software to this new platform. However, challenges remain as most software applications need to be redesigned to embrace the Cloud. In this paper, we present an overview of our current on-going work in developing epiC - an elastic and efficient power-aware data-intensive Cloud system. We discuss the design issues and the implementation of epiC's storage system and processing engine. The storage system and the processing engine are loosely coupled, and have been designed to handle two types of workload simultaneously, namely data-intensive analytical jobs and online transactions (commonly referred as OLAP and OLTP respectively). The processing of large-scale analytical jobs in epiC adopts a phase-based processing strategy, which provides a fine-grained fault tolerance, while the processing of queries adopts indexing and filter-and-refine strategies.