Visualising the influence of data structure choice on the performance of a distributed database system

Author

Churcher, Clare ; McKinnon, Alan ; Jarquin, Roger

Author_Institution

Appl. Comput. Math. & Stat. Group, Lincoln Univ., Canterbury, New Zealand

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

472

Lastpage

479

Abstract

The choice of data structure is an important decision in any software project. Application developers do not necessarily have a good understanding of how a particular system manages its data structures and how this might influence performance. We provide visualisations representing the behaviour of different data structures in an object oriented distributed database system. The data is obtained from cache monitoring software and the visualisations therefore represent the actual, as opposed to the theoretical, behaviour. The visualisations can be used as a supplement to the textual description of how a particular system manages its data structures so providing developers, educators and students with a clearer understanding of the implications of their choice of data structure

Keywords

cache storage; client-server systems; data structures; data visualisation; distributed databases; object-oriented databases; project management; software development management; system monitoring; cache monitoring software; data structure choice; object oriented distributed database system performance; software project; textual description; visualisation; Application software; Data structures; Data visualization; Database systems; Distributed databases; Mathematics; Monitoring; Relational databases; Statistical distributions; Visual databases;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering Conference, 2000. APSEC 2000. Proceedings. Seventh Asia-Pacific

ISSN

1530-1362

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0915-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APSEC.2000.896736

Filename

896736