BlobSeer: Next-generation data management for large scale infrastructures

As data volumes increase at a high speed in more and more application fields of science, engineering, information services, etc., the challenges posed by data-intensive computing gain increasing importance. The emergence of highly scalable infrastructures, e.g. for cloud computing and for petascale...

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Published inJournal of parallel and distributed computing Vol. 71; no. 2; pp. 169 - 184
Main Authors Nicolae, Bogdan, Antoniu, Gabriel, Bougé, Luc, Moise, Diana, Carpen-Amarie, Alexandra
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier Inc 01.02.2011
Elsevier
Subjects
Algorithms
BlobSeer
Computation
Computer Science
Concurrency
Data intensive applications
Data management
Decentralized metadata management
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Gain
High speed
High throughput
Infrastructure
MapReduce
Microorganisms
Versioning
High throughput
Versioning
Data management
Concurrency
Decentralized metadata management
BlobSeer
Data intensive applications
MapReduce
data management
versioning
high throughput
data intensive applications
concurrency
decentralized metadata management
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Summary:As data volumes increase at a high speed in more and more application fields of science, engineering, information services, etc., the challenges posed by data-intensive computing gain increasing importance. The emergence of highly scalable infrastructures, e.g. for cloud computing and for petascale computing and beyond, introduces additional issues for which scalable data management becomes an immediate need. This paper makes several contributions. First, it proposes a set of principles for designing highly scalable distributed storage systems that are optimized for heavy data access concurrency. In particular, we highlight the potentially large benefits of using versioning in this context. Second, based on these principles, we propose a set of versioning algorithms, both for data and metadata, that enable a high throughput under concurrency. Finally, we implement and evaluate these algorithms in the BlobSeer prototype, that we integrate as a storage backend in the Hadoop MapReduce framework. We perform extensive microbenchmarks as well as experiments with real MapReduce applications: they demonstrate that applying the principles defended in our approach brings substantial benefits to data intensive applications.
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ISSN:0743-7315
1096-0848
DOI:10.1016/j.jpdc.2010.08.004