Abstract
This paper describes a main memory data storage system for a distributed system of heterogeneous general purpose workstations. We show that distributed main memory storage managers are qualitatively different from distributed disk based storage managers. Specifically, we show that load balancing, which is crucial to disk-based systems has little effect on the performance of a memory-based system. On the other hand, we show that saturation prevention in cases where the server exceeds its memory capacity or becomes overload is crucial to smooth performance. Finally, we show that distributed memory-based storage results in performance more than one order of magnitude better than their disk-based counterparts.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages | 150-159 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| State | Published - 1996 |
| Event | Proceedings of the 1996 6th International Workshop on Research Issues in Data Engineering, RIDE - New Orleans, LA, USA Duration: Feb 26 1996 → Feb 27 1996 |
Conference
| Conference | Proceedings of the 1996 6th International Workshop on Research Issues in Data Engineering, RIDE |
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| City | New Orleans, LA, USA |
| Period | 2/26/96 → 2/27/96 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software
- Engineering (miscellaneous)
- Hardware and Architecture