Achieving transaction scaleup on Unix

Author

Neimat, Marie Anne ; Schneider, Donovan A.

Author_Institution

Hewlett-Packard Co., Palo Alto, CA, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

28-30 Sep 1994

Firstpage

249

Lastpage

252

Abstract

Constructing scalable high-performance applications on commodity hardware running the Unix operating system is a problem that must be addressed in several application domains. We relate our experience in achieving transaction scaleup on Unix for a high-performance OLTP system intended for Service Control Points (SCPs) in a telephone switching network. SCPs are but one example from a class of applications whose requirements cannot be properly handled by today´s commercial DBMSs. In addition to high throughput and low response time, SCPs require transaction scaleup on standard hardware and software. Using a main-memory DBMS to obtain high throughput, we focus on the problem of achieving transaction scaleup on a cluster of workstations running Unix while constrained by the low response time requirement of the SCP application

Keywords

Unix; electronic switching systems; software reliability; transaction processing; OLTP system; Service Control Points; Unix; commodity hardware; high-performance applications; main-memory DBMS; operating system; telephone switching network; transaction scaleup; Application software; Databases; Delay; Hardware; Milling machines; Open systems; Switches; Switching systems; Telephony; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Information Systems, 1994., Proceedings of the Third International Conference on

Conference_Location

Austin, TX

Print_ISBN

0-8186-6400-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PDIS.1994.331709

Filename

331709