Rules of thumb in data engineering

Author

Gray, Jim ; Shenoy, Prashant

Author_Institution

Microsoft Res., Massachusetts Univ., Amherst, MA, USA

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

3

Lastpage

10

Abstract

This paper reexamines the rules of thumb for the design of data storage systems. Briefly, it looks at storage, processing, and networking costs, ratios, and trends with a particular focus on performance and price/performance. Amdahl´s ratio laws for system design need only slight revision after 35 years-the major change being the increased use of RAM. An analysis also indicates storage should be used to cache both database and Web data to save disk bandwidth, network bandwidth, and people´s time. Surprisingly, the 5-minute rule for disk caching becomes a cache-everything rule for Web caching

Keywords

cache storage; database management systems; storage units; Web data caching; cache-everything rule; data engineering; data storage system design; database data caching; disk bandwidth; disk caching; network bandwidth; networking costs; performance; price/performance; processing costs; ratio laws; storage costs; Bandwidth; Cache storage; Costs; Data engineering; Data storage systems; Intelligent networks; Moore´s Law; Read-write memory; System analysis and design; Thumb;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Data Engineering, 2000. Proceedings. 16th International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

1063-6382

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0506-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDE.2000.839382

Filename

839382