SolarDB: Toward a shared-everything database on distributed log-structured storage

Tao Zhu, Zhuoyue Zhao, Feifei Li, Weining Qian, Aoying Zhou, Dong Xie, Ryan Stutsman, Haining Li, Huiqi Hu

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Abstract

Efficient transaction processing over large databases is a key requirement for many mission-critical applications. Although modern databases have achieved good performance through horizontal partitioning, their performance deteriorates when cross-partition distributed transactions have to be executed. This article presents SolarDB, a distributed relational database system that has been successfully tested at a large commercial bank. The key features of SolarDB include (1) a shared-everything architecture based on a twolayer log-structured merge-tree; (2) a new concurrency control algorithm that works with the log-structured storage, which ensures efficient and non-blocking transaction processing even when the storage layer is compacting data among nodes in the background; and (3) find-grained data access to effectively minimize and balance network communication within the cluster. According to our empirical evaluations on TPC-C, Smallbank, and a real-world workload, SolarDB outperforms the existing shared-nothing systems by up to 50x when there are close to or more than 5% distributed transactions.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number2
JournalACM Transactions on Storage
Volume15
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2019

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Hardware and Architecture

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