Browsing Theses by Subject "DBMS"
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Dynamic Scale-out Mechanisms for Partitioned Shared-Nothing Databases
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-30)For a database system used in pay-per-use cloud environments, elastic scaling becomes an essential feature, allowing for minimizing costs while accommodating fluctuations of load. One approach to scalability involves ... -
Effective Use of SSDs in Database Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-07)With the advent of solid state drives (SSDs), the storage industry has experienced a revolutionary improvement in I/O performance. Compared to traditional hard disk drives (HDDs), SSDs benefit from shorter I/O latency, ... -
Memory Power Consumption in Main-Memory Database Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-06)In main-memory database systems, memory can consume a substantial amount of power, comparable to that of the processors. However, existing memory power-saving mechanisms are much less effective than processor power ... -
Second-tier Cache Management to Support DBMS Workloads
(University of Waterloo, 2011-10-24)Enterprise Database Management Systems (DBMS) often run on computers with dedicated storage systems. Their data access requests need to go through two tiers of cache, i.e., a database bufferpool and a storage server cache, ...