CMU-CS-06-128 Computer Science Department School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Scalable Consistency Management
Charles Garrod, Amit Manjhi, Anastassia Ailamaki, July 2006
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We have built a prototype of a scalable dynamic web-content delivery system, which we call S3. Initial experiments with S3 led us to conclude that the key to achieving scalability lay in reducing the workload on back-end databases. S3 utilizes proxy servers to generate dynamic content and cache the results of queries forwarded to the back-end database. This approach introduces the challenge of maintaining cache consistency when the database is updated. In this paper we introduce a fully-distributed consistency management infrastructure that uses a scalable publish / subscribe substrate to propagate update notifications. We use static analysis of the database workload to introduce several design alternatives for how to map database requests to publish / subscribe groups. Finally, we develop a simulation framework and use both simulation and our S3 prototype implementation to evaluate these alternatives empirically to determine which design is best for typical dynamic web workloads. 19 pages
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