The CACTUS object server: design and implementation issues

Author

Meng, I-Heng ; Yang, Wei-Pang ; Lin, Swu-Mei ; Chen, Mu-Ann ; Chen, Shih-Kung ; Dai, Jian-Cheng

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Nat. Chiao Tung Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan

fYear

1998

fDate

2-4 Dec 1998

Firstpage

354

Lastpage

360

Abstract

CACTUS is a compact and reliable object storage system based on peer-to-peer architecture with distributed transaction processing capability. The kernel is implemented with the multi-thread mechanisms to provide a high performance multi-transaction environment. All sites, installed with CACTUS, of the networked workstations are on an equal footing. The system can handle local and remote transactions including accessing remote objects or processing remote accesses. In this paper, we give an architectural overview of CACTUS and discuss some implementation issues. It mentions the special contributions such as transient large objects, the coarser lock granularity and its associated protocol. A cost model is developed to demonstrate that the new scheme yields performances which are superior in most common cases and inferior under certain situations

Keywords

object-oriented databases; protocols; transaction processing; CACTUS object server; coarser lock granularity; cost model; distributed transaction processing; implementation issues; multi-thread mechanisms; peer-to-peer architecture; protocol; reliable object storage system; remote objects; Collaboration; Costs; Database systems; Delay; Electrical capacitance tomography; Kernel; Peer to peer computing; Throughput; Workstations; Yarn;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering Conference, 1998. Proceedings. 1998 Asia Pacific

Conference_Location

Taipei

Print_ISBN

0-8186-9183-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APSEC.1998.733739

Filename

733739