On parallel transaction processing in a coupled system

Author

Chen, Ming-Syan ; Yang, Tao-Heng ; Yu, Philip S. ; Liu, Tze-Shiu

Author_Institution

IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

19-22 Dec 1994

Firstpage

662

Lastpage

669

Abstract

A performance study is conducted on parallel transaction processing in a coupled system, which is a multi-node system with a shared global buffer. We develop a multiple system simulator and obtain several performance results from it. This simulator has been run against three workloads, and the coupled system behavior with these three different inputs is studied. Several statistics, including those on local and global buffer hits, page writes to the global buffer, cross-invalidations and castouts, are comparatively analysed, and their relationship to the degree of data skew is explored

Keywords

buffer storage; concurrency control; distributed databases; parallel processing; performance evaluation; statistics; transaction processing; castouts; coupled system; cross-invalidations; data skew; global buffer hits; local buffer hits; multi-node system; multiple system simulator; page writes; parallel transaction processing; performance study; shared global buffer; statistics; workloads; Availability; Delay; Environmental management; Fault tolerant systems; Laboratories; Load management; Parallel processing; Scalability; System performance; Transaction databases;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Systems, 1994. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hsinchu

Print_ISBN

0-8186-6555-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICPADS.1994.590422

Filename

590422