VSFS: A Searchable Distributed File System

Author

Lei Xu ; Ziling Huang ; Hong Jiang ; Lei Tian ; Swanson, David

fYear

2014

fDate

16-16 Nov. 2014

Firstpage

25

Lastpage

30

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a Versatile Searchable File System, VSFS, which builds POSIX-compatible namespace using a novel Namespace-based File Query Language (NFQL). This enables analytics applications to utilize VSFS high-performance file-search service without changing their data model. VSFS versatile file-indexing mechanism is designed to offer great flexibility for applications to control indices to satisfy analytics needs. The evaluations driven by two real-world analytics applications demonstrate VSFS´ high scalability and powerful data-filtering functionality.

Keywords

Unix; data models; distributed databases; indexing; network operating systems; query languages; NFQL; POSIX-compatible namespace; VSFS high-performance file-search service; VSFS versatile file-indexing mechanism; analytics applications; data-filtering functionality; namespace-based file query language; real-world analytics applications; searchable distributed file system; versatile searchable file system; Big data; File systems; Indexing; Real-time systems; Servers; File System Managements; Distributed Systems; Indexing Methods; Information Filtering;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel Data Storage Workshop (PDSW), 2014 9th

Conference_Location

New Orleans, LA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PDSW.2014.10

Filename

7016279