Performance evaluation of multiversion database systems

Author

Son, Sang H. ; Haghighi, Navid

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Virginia Univ., Charlottesville, VA, USA

fYear

1990

fDate

5-9 Feb 1990

Firstpage

129

Lastpage

136

Abstract

A description is given of a detailed simulation study of the performance of multiversion database systems. The characteristics and the extent to which they provide performance benefits over their single-version counterparts are investigated. First, the structure of a software prototyping environment for the evaluation of distributed database systems is presented. Using this environment, the authors shows that for specific workloads, multiversion database systems offer performance improvements despite additional CPU and I/O costs involved in accessing old versions of data. It is also shown that transaction size is one of the most critical parameters affecting the system performance

Keywords

concurrency control; distributed databases; performance evaluation; program testing; distributed database systems; multiversion database systems; performance evaluation; simulation; software prototyping environment; system performance; transaction size; Computational modeling; Computer science; Concurrency control; Concurrent computing; Control systems; Costs; Database systems; Isolation technology; Prototypes; Software prototyping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Data Engineering, 1990. Proceedings. Sixth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Los Angeles, CA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2025-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDE.1990.113462

Filename

113462