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| Title: | Cache-oblivious databases : limitations and opportunities |
| Authors: | Luo, Qiong
He, Bingsheng |
| Keywords: | Cache-oblivious
Cache-conscious
Data caches
Chip multiprocessors
Simultaneous multithreading |
| Issue Date: | 2008 |
| Citation: | ACM transactions on database systems, v. 33, no. 2, June 2008, article no. 8 |
| Abstract: | Cache-oblivious techniques, proposed in the theory community, have optimal asymptotic bounds on the amount of data transferred between any two adjacent levels of an arbitrary memory hierarchy. Moreover, this optimal performance is achieved without any hardware platform specific tuning. These properties are highly attractive to autonomous databases, especially because the hardware architectures are becoming increasingly complex and diverse.
In this paper, we present our design, implementation, and evaluation of the first cache-oblivious in-memory query processor, EaseDB. Moreover, we discuss the inherent limitations of the cache-oblivious approach as well as the opportunities given by the upcoming hardware architectures. Specifically, a cache-oblivious technique usually requires sophisticated algorithm design to achieve a comparable performance to its cache-conscious counterpart. Nevertheless, this development-time effort is compensated by the automaticity of performance achievement and the reduced ownership cost. Furthermore, this automaticity enables cache-oblivious techniques to outperform their cache-conscious counterparts in multi-threading processors. |
| Rights: | © ACM, 2008. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in ACM Transactions on Database Systems, {VOL 33, ISS 2, (June 2008)} |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1783.1/3275 |
| Appears in Collections: | CSE Journal/Magazine Articles
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