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Hyder: A Transactional Indexed Record Manager for Shared Flash Storage
Philip A.
Bernstein
Microsoft Research
Friday, December 11, 2009, 4PM
Volen 101, Brandeis University
(preceded by a wine and cheese reception at 3:00 pm. Dinner will be on Thursday December 10th)
Abstract:
An enormous increase
in the I/O rate to shared storage is made possible by the availability
of large flash storage chips and cheap high-speed network switches.
Hyder is a research project to develop a new transactional
indexed-record manager based on these technologies. It’s a data-sharing
system, where all compute servers have direct access to shared flash
storage and no direct-attached disk. Its main feature is that it scales
out without partitioning the database or application. It is therefore
well-suited to a data center environment, where scale-out is especially
important and where specialized flash hardware and networking can be
cost-effective. The software architecture that makes this possible is
radically different than classical transactional record managers. It
uses log-structured record storage, sliding-window RAID, binary search
trees, and optimistic concurrency control. There is no locking,
ARIES-style logging, or B-trees. After a brief discussion of
motivation, I will spend most of the talk describing the architecture.
This work is joint with Colin Reid, also at Microsoft.
Speaker's Bio:
Phil Bernstein is a Principal Researcher in Microsoft Research. He joined Microsoft in 1994 as a product architect and moved to Microsoft Research in 1998. Over the past 30 years, he has been a product architect at Digital Equipment Corp., a professor at Harvard University and Wang Institute of Graduate Studies, and a VP Software at Sequoia Systems. During that time, he has published over 150 papers on the theory and implementation of database systems, and two books on transaction processing. The second edition of his book Principles of Transaction Processing, with Eric Newcomer, was published in June. He is an ACM Fellow, a winner of the SIGMOD Innovations Award, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering and Washington State Academy of Sciences.
Speaker's Bio:
Phil Bernstein is a Principal Researcher in Microsoft Research. He joined Microsoft in 1994 as a product architect and moved to Microsoft Research in 1998. Over the past 30 years, he has been a product architect at Digital Equipment Corp., a professor at Harvard University and Wang Institute of Graduate Studies, and a VP Software at Sequoia Systems. During that time, he has published over 150 papers on the theory and implementation of database systems, and two books on transaction processing. The second edition of his book Principles of Transaction Processing, with Eric Newcomer, was published in June. He is an ACM Fellow, a winner of the SIGMOD Innovations Award, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering and Washington State Academy of Sciences.
Maintained by Olga Papaemmanouil olga AT cs.brandeis.edu