High Throughput I/O for Large Scale Data Repositories

Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Grant Number: CCF-0702728

PI: Ali Saman Tosun
Period: May 2007 - Apr. 2010
Amount: $299,926

 

Description

 

Declustering has attracted a lot of interest over the last few years and has applications in many areas including high-dimensional data management, geographical information systems and scientific visualization. Most of the declustering research have focused on spatial range queries and finding schemes with low worst-case additive error. This research investigates various aspects of declustering including novel declustering schemes, replicated declustering, heterogeneous declustering, adaptive declustering and declustering using multiple databases. The investigators approach every issue both theoretically and practically, study what is theoretically possible, what can be achieved in practice and try to close the gap between the two. The investigators study novel declustering schemes with solid theoretical foundations including number-theoretic declustering and design-theoretic declustering. Replication strategies for various types of queries including spatial range queries and arbitrary queries are studied. Retrieval algorithm for design-theoretic replication has linear complexity and guarantees worst-case retrieval cost. The investigators study tradeoffs in retrieval between complexity and retrieval cost and develop a suite of protocols for retrieval. This research involves adaptive declustering schemes that adapt to disk
failures, disk additions and changing query types by moving buckets between disks during idle periods.

 

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