A lightweight stream-based join with limited resource consumption

  • Authors:
  • M. Asif Naeem;Gillian Dobbie;Gerald Weber

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand;Department of Computer Science, The University of Auckland, New Zealand;Department of Computer Science, The University of Auckland, New Zealand

  • Venue:
  • DaWaK'12 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Many stream-based applications have plenty of resources available to them, but there are also applications where resource consumption must be limited. For one important class of stream-based joins, where a stream is joined with a non-stream master data set, the algorithm called MESHJOIN was proposed. MESHJOIN uses limited memory and is a candidate for a resource-aware system setup. The problem that is considered in this paper is that MESHJOIN is not very selective. In particular, the performance of the algorithm is always inversely proportional to the size of the master data table. As a consequence, the resource consumption is in some scenarios sub-optimal. We present an algorithm CACHEJOIN, which performs asymptotically at least as well as MESHJOIN but performs better in realistic scenarios, particularly if parts of the master data are used with different frequencies. In order to quantify the performance differences, we compare both algorithms using a synthetic data set with a known skewed distribution.