Title
Edelweiss: automatic storage reclamation for distributed programming
Abstract
Event Log Exchange (ELE) is a common programming pattern based on immutable state and messaging. ELE sidesteps traditional challenges in distributed consistency, at the expense of introducing new challenges in designing space reclamation protocols to avoid consuming unbounded storage. We introduce Edelweiss, a sublanguage of Bloom that provides an ELE programming model, yet automatically reclaims space without programmer assistance. We describe techniques to analyze Edelweiss programs and automatically generate application-specific distributed space reclamation logic. We show how Edelweiss can be used to elegantly implement a variety of communication and distributed storage protocols; the storage reclamation code generated by Edelweiss effectively garbage-collects state and often matches hand-written protocols from the literature.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.14778/2732279.2732285
PVLDB
Field
DocType
Volume
Programmer,Programming paradigm,Computer science,Distributed data store,Land reclamation,Database,Sublanguage,EDELWEISS,Distributed computing
Journal
7
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
6
2150-8097
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
30
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Neil Conway145821.46
Peter Alvaro246328.96
Emily Andrews320.70
Joseph M. Hellerstein4140931651.14