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New England Database Society

Friday, May 06, 2011

sponsored by Netezza Corporation

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NEDS

   Elastic Scalability of Data-intensive Applications in the Cloud

 Divy Agrawal
  University of California at Santa Barbara

Friday, May 06, 2011, 4PM
Volen 101, Brandeis University

(preceded by a wine and cheese reception at 3:00 pm, and followed by dinner at 6:00 pm)

Abstract:

Over the past two decades, database and systems researchers have made significant advances in the development of algorithms and techniques to provide data management solutions that carefully balance the three major requirements when  dealing with critical data: high availability, reliability, and data consistency. However, over the past few years the data requirements, in terms of data availability and system scalability, from Internet scale enterprises that provide services and cater to millions of users have been unprecedented. Cloud computing has emerged as an extremely successful paradigm for deploying Internet and Web-based applications. Scalability, elasticity, pay-per-use pricing, and autonomic control of large-scale operations are the major reasons for success and widespread adoption of cloud infrastructures. Current proposed solutions to scalable data management, driven primarily by prevalent application requirements, significantly downplay the data consistency requirements and instead focus on high scalability and resource elasticity to support data-rich applications for millions to tens of millions of users.  In particular, the "newer" data management systems limit consistent access only at the granularity of single objects, rows, or keys, thereby significantly trading-off consistency in order to achieve very high scalability and availability. But the growing popularity of "cloud computing", the resulting shift of  a large number of Internet applications to the cloud, and the quest towards providing data management services in the cloud, has opened up the challenge for designing data management systems that provide consistency guarantees at a granularity which goes beyond single rows and keys. In this talk, we analyze the design choices that allowed modern scalable data management systems to achieve orders of magnitude higher levels of scalability compared to traditional databases. With this understanding, we highlight some design principles for data management systems that can be used to augment existing databases with new cloud features such as scalability, elasticity, and autonomy. In this talk we present recent advances that have been made to strike a middle-ground between the two radically different data management a rchitectures: traditional database management systems where the data is treated as a "whole" versus modern key-value stores where data is treated as a collection of independent "granules".

Speaker's Bio:

Dr. Divyakant Agrawal is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California at Santa Barbara. His research expertise is in the areas of database systems, distributed computing, data warehousing, and large-scale information systems. Dr. Agrawal served as the Chair of Computer Science Department at UCSB from 1999 to 2003. From January 2006 through December 2007, Dr. Agrawal served as VP of Data Solutions and Advertising Systems at the Internet Search Company ASK.com. Dr. Agrawal has also served as a Visiting Senior Research Scientist at the NEC Laboratories of America in Cupertino, CA from 1997 to 2009. During his professional career, Dr. Agrawal has served on numerous Program Committees of International Conferences, Symposia, and Workshops and served as an editor of the journal of Distributed and Parallel Databases (1993-2008), the VLDB journal (2003-2008) and currently serves on the editorial boards of the Proceedings of the VLDB and ACM Transactions on Database Systems. He recently served as the Program Chair of the 2010 ACM International Conference on Management of Data and served as the General Chair of the 2010 ACM SIGSPATIAL Conference on Advances in Geographical Information Systems. Dr. Agrawal organized an NSF Workshop on the Science of Cloud Computing in March’2011, is serving as the General Co-Chair of ACM SIGSPATIAL Conference on Advances in GIS (ACM GIS’2011), and is serving as the Program Co-Chair of ACM Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Systems and Middleware (ACM LADIS’2011). Dr. Agrawal's research philosophy is to develop data management solutions that are theoretically sound and are relevant in practice. He has published 300+ research manuscripts in prestigious forums (journals, conferences, symposia, and workshops) on wide range of topics related to data management and distributed systems and has advised more than 30 Doctoral students during his academic career. Recently, Dr. Agrawal has been recognized as an Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Distinguished Scientist. His current interests are in the area of scalable data management and data analysis in Cloud Computing environments, security and privacy of data in the cloud, and scalable analytics over social networks data and social media. Dr. Agrawal is the recipient of the UCSB Academic Senate Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award in 2010-11.






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