Performance evaluations of a parallel and expandable database computer -- the Multi-Backend Database computer

This study is the actual application of a performance evaluation technique known as benchmarking to an experimental database management system (DBMS). The specific DBMS evaluated is the Multi-Backend Database System (MBDS) which is a software multiple-backend database system. The unconventional nature of a multiple-backend computer system required the development of a special performance evaluation methodology which was the topic of several related theses. A previously developed performance evaluation methodology and the computer assisted benchmarking tools developed to implement the methodology had only been applied to MBDS on a very small scale and had not been used with the current set of modern MBDS hardware. The focus of this thesis is the verification of the performance claims made by the implementor of MBDS. These performance claims were, in fact, validated by conducting a series of relatively large-scale benchmarking experiments in which MBDS performed, generally, as predicted by its implementor. While the results are encouraging, future benchmarking experiments need to be conducted on an even larger database to examine MBDS performance under an extreme load. This will require the development of a high-speed database loading utility program which is not the focus of this thesis. Here, we report on the test databases, test transactions and test results (which constitute the bench marks) used to verify the MBDS implementor's claims of response-time reduction and response-time invariance.

Department dc:contributor.department

Computer Science

Grantor dc:publisher

Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School

Year dc:date.issued

1989

Author dc:creator

• Hall, James E.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Hsiao, David K.

Statement dc:rights

• This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.

Language dc:language.iso

en_US

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/10945/27202

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:calhoun.nps.edu:10945/27202