Rethinking Data Management Systems for Disaggregated Data Centers
In Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR), 2020
One recent trend of cloud data center design is resource disaggregation. Instead of having server units with “converged” compute, memory, and storage resources, a disaggregated data center (DDC) has pools of resources of each type connected via a network. While the systems community has been investigating the research challenges of DDC by designing new OS and network stacks, the implications of DDC for next-generation database systems remain unclear. In this paper, we take a first step towards understanding how DDCs might affect the design of relational databases, discuss the potential advantages and drawbacks in the context of data processing, and outline research challenges in addressing them.
Authors
Qizhen Zhang*, Yifan Cai, Sebastian Angel*, Ang Chen**, Vincent Liu* and Boon Thau Loo*
* University of Pennsylvania
** Rice University