Dynamic buffer management with extensible replacement policies

The objective of extensible DBMSs is to ease the construction of specialized DBMSs for nontraditional applications. Although much work has been done in providing various levels of extensibility (e.g., extensibility of data types and operators, query language extensibility, and query optimizer extensibility), there has been very limited research in providing extensibility at the buffer management level. Supporting extensibility at the buffer management level is important as it can contribute significantly to overall system performance. This paper addresses the problem of supporting extensibility of buffer replacement policies. The main contribution is the proposal of a framework for modeling buffer replacement policies. This work is novel in two aspects. First, by providing a uniform and generic specification of buffer replacement policies, the proposed framework unifies existing work in this area. Second, our work introduces a new level of extensibility. None of the existing extensible...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: VLDB
• Authors: Chong Leng Goh, Yanfeng Shu, Zhiyong Huang, Beng Chin Ooi
• Keywords: Buffer Management Level, Buffer Replacement Policies, Database, Query Optimizer Extensibility, VLDB 2006