A Fast Convergence Technique for Online Heat-Balancing of Btree Indexed Database over Shared-Nothing Parallel Systems

  • Authors:
  • Hisham Feelifl;Masaru Kitsuregawa;Beng Chin Ooi

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • DEXA '00 Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

In shared-nothing environments, data is typically declustered and indexed across the system processing elements (PEs) to achieve efficient processing. However access patterns are inherently dynamic and skewed, thus, data reorganization based on the data access history (heat) is essential and should be done online. While the data is being reorganized, indexes need to be modified too, therefore, reorganization should additionally deal with the index modification. Based on minimization of index modification, we propose a data reorganization technique over a shared-nothing parallel system. By finding the exact work that should be done, the technique can smoothly balance a given heat across the PEs as fast as possible, if it is required. By tuning its parameters, it can cover a wide range of balancing requirements. We evaluate its performance through simulation studies. Its effectiveness is clarified quantitatively.