A case for redundant arrays of inexpensive disks (RAID)
SIGMOD '88 Proceedings of the 1988 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
System architecture for a large scale video on demand service
Computer Networks and ISDN Systems - Driving applications for future networks
Streaming RAID: a disk array management system for video files
MULTIMEDIA '93 Proceedings of the first ACM international conference on Multimedia
Tertiary Storage: An Evaluation of New Applications
Tertiary Storage: An Evaluation of New Applications
Choosing the best storage system for video service
Proceedings of the third ACM international conference on Multimedia
ADC '01 Proceedings of the 12th Australasian database conference
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
An Efficient Storage Organization for Multimedia Databases
VISUAL '02 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Recent Advances in Visual Information Systems
Constructing a video server with tertiary storage: practice and experience
Multimedia Systems
Tribeca: a system for managing large databases of network traffic
ATEC '98 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
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We evaluate storage system alternatives for movies-on-demand video servers. We begin by characterizing the movies-on-demand workload. We briefly discuss performance in disk arrays. First, we study disk farms in which one movie is stored per disk. This is a simple scheme, but it wastes substantial disk bandwidth, because disks holding less popular movies are underutilized; also, good performance requires that movies be replicated to reflect the user request pattern. Next, we examine disk farms in which movies are striped across disks, and find that striped video servers offer nearly full utilization of the disks by achieving better load balancing. For the remainder of the paper, we concentrate on tertiary storage systems. We evaluate the use of storage hierarchies for video service. These hierarchies include a tertiary library along with a disk farm. We examine both magnetic tape libraries and optical disk jukeboxes. We show that, unfortunately, the performance of neither tertiary system performs adequately as part of a storage hierarchy to service the predicted distribution of movie accesses. We suggest changes to tertiary libraries that would make them better-suited to these applications.