P-Dedupe: Exploiting Parallelism in Data Deduplication System

Data deduplication, an efficient space reduction method, has gained increasing attention and popularity in data-intensive storage systems. Most existing state-of-the-art deduplication methods remove redundant data at either the file level or the chunk level, which incurs unavoidable and significant overheads in time (due to chunking and fingerprinting). These overheads can degrade the write performance to an unacceptable level in a data storage system. In this paper, we propose P-Dedupe, a fast and scalable deduplication system. The main idea behind P-Dedupe is to fully compose pipelined and parallel computations of data deduplication by effectively exploiting the idle resources of modern computer systems with multi-core and many-core processor architectures. Our experimental evaluation of the P-Dedupe prototype based on real-world datasets shows that P-Dedupe speeds up the deduplication write throughput by a factor of 2~4 through pipelining deduplication and parallelizing hash calculation and achieves 80%~250% of the performance of a conventional storage system without data deduplication.