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Disaggregated Database Management Systems

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Modern applications demand high performance and cost efficient database management systems (DBMSs). Their workloads may be diverse, ranging from online transaction processing to analytics and decision support. The cloud infrastructure enables disaggregation of monolithic DBMSs into components that facilitate software-hardware co-design. This is realized using pools of hardware resources, i.e., CPUs, GPUs, memory, FPGA, NVM, etc., connected using high-speed networks. This disaggregation trend is being adopted by cloud DBMSs because hardware re-provisioning can be achieved by simply invoking software APIs. Disaggregated DBMSs separate processing from storage, enabling each to scale elastically and independently. They may disaggregate compute usage based on functionality, e.g., compute needed for writes from compute needed for queries and compute needed for compaction. They may also use disaggregated memory, e.g., for intermediate results in a shuffle or for remote caching. The DBMS monitors the characteristics of a workload and dynamically assembles its components that are most efficient and cost effective for the workload. This paper is a summary of a panel session that discussed the capability, challenges, and opportunities of these emerging DBMSs and disaggregated hardware systems.

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    A DMS includes traditional relational database management systems, key-value stores, document stores, etc.

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We thank Liqid’s Bob Brumfield and George Wagner for input on Sect. 2.2.

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Ghandeharizadeh, S., Bernstein, P.A., Borthakur, D., Huang, H., Menon, J., Puri, S. (2023). Disaggregated Database Management Systems. In: Nambiar, R., Poess, M. (eds) Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking. TPCTC 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13860. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29576-8_3

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