Title :
Visualising the influence of data structure choice on the performance of a distributed database system
Author :
Churcher, Clare ; McKinnon, Alan ; Jarquin, Roger
Author_Institution :
Appl. Comput. Math. & Stat. Group, Lincoln Univ., Canterbury, New Zealand
Abstract :
The choice of data structure is an important decision in any software project. Application developers do not necessarily have a good understanding of how a particular system manages its data structures and how this might influence performance. We provide visualisations representing the behaviour of different data structures in an object oriented distributed database system. The data is obtained from cache monitoring software and the visualisations therefore represent the actual, as opposed to the theoretical, behaviour. The visualisations can be used as a supplement to the textual description of how a particular system manages its data structures so providing developers, educators and students with a clearer understanding of the implications of their choice of data structure
Keywords :
cache storage; client-server systems; data structures; data visualisation; distributed databases; object-oriented databases; project management; software development management; system monitoring; cache monitoring software; data structure choice; object oriented distributed database system performance; software project; textual description; visualisation; Application software; Data structures; Data visualization; Database systems; Distributed databases; Mathematics; Monitoring; Relational databases; Statistical distributions; Visual databases;
Conference_Titel :
Software Engineering Conference, 2000. APSEC 2000. Proceedings. Seventh Asia-Pacific
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0915-0
DOI :
10.1109/APSEC.2000.896736
