Investigating distributed relational database management systems in cloud environment
Budai Péter
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BME, Irányítástechnika és Informatika Tanszék
Goldschmidt Balázs Dr.
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BME, Irányítástechnika és Informatika Tanszék
As the IaaS cloud services getting more widespread and more accepted worldwide, more and more applications are getting transferred to the cloud infrastructure. Whether being scientific or traditional multiple-tier web applications, they have in common that they consist of several software components deployed on more physical or virtual servers. Usually one of these software components is some kind of database, most commonly a standard or distributed relational database management system designed without the cloud infrastructure in mind.
In our research we have been studying the maintenace and perfomance aspects of distributed relation database management systems, especially the MySQL Cluster database management software. In this paper we briefly introduce the architecture and software components of the MySQL Cluster database, then we present the configuration and maintenance scenarios applicable to this software in the cloud environment. Then we present the results of our series of performance tests that were performed on several different configurations of the MySQL Cluster application.