Monopedia: Staying single is good enough - the hyper way for web scale applications

Maximilian E. Schüle, Pascal M.N. Schliski, Thomas Hutzelmann, Tobias Rosenberger, Viktor Leis, Dimitri Vorona, Alfons Kemper, Thomas Neumann

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Abstract

In order to handle the database load for web scale applications, the conventional wisdom is that a cluster of database servers and a caching layer are essential. In this work, we argue that modern main memory database systems are often fast enough to consolidate this complex architecture into a single server (plus an additional fail over system). To demonstrate this claim, we design the Monopedia Benchmark, a benchmark for web scale applications modeled after Wikipedia. Using this benchmark, we show that it is indeed possible to run the database workload of one of the largest web sites in the world on a single database server.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1921-1924
Number of pages4
JournalProceedings of the VLDB Endowment
Volume10
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Aug 2017
Event43rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB 2017 - Munich, Germany
Duration: 28 Aug 20171 Sep 2017

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