Title
MaSM: efficient online updates in data warehouses
Abstract
Data warehouses have been traditionally optimized for read-only query performance, allowing only offline updates at night, essentially trading off data freshness for performance. The need for 24x7 operations in global markets and the rise of online and other quickly-reacting businesses make concurrent online updates increasingly desirable. Unfortunately, state-of-the-art approaches fall short of supporting fast analysis queries over fresh data. The conventional approach of performing updates in place can dramatically slow down query performance, while prior proposals using differential updates either require large in-memory buffers or may incur significant update migration cost. This paper presents a novel approach for supporting online updates in data warehouses that overcomes the limitations of prior approaches, by making judicious use of available SSDs to cache incoming updates. We model the problem of query processing with differential updates as a type of outer join between the data residing on disks and the updates residing on SSDs. We present MaSM algorithms for performing such joins and periodic migrations, with small memory footprints, low query overhead, low SSD writes, efficient in-place migration of updates, and correct ACID support. Our experiments show that MaSM incurs only up to 7% overhead both on synthetic range scans (varying range size from 100GB to 4KB) and in a TPC-H query replay study, while also increasing the update throughput by orders of magnitude.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1145/1989323.1989414
SIGMOD Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
efficient online updates,differential updates,fresh data,data warehouse,incoming updates,tpc-h query replay study,low query overhead,data freshness,offline updates,online updates,fast analysis query,data warehouses
Data warehouse,Data mining,Joins,Computer science,Cache,Throughput,Database
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
20
0.68
20
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Manos Athanassoulis132221.87
Shimin Chen256029.44
Anastasia Ailamaki34178349.12
Phillip B. Gibbons46863624.14
Radu Stoica533721.22