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Data Placement In Bubba
Summary: Data placement in Bubba uses a heuristic declustering strategy to balance load. Results: declustering boosts balance but can reduce throughput for complex joins due to inter-node comms and startup/teardown overhead; argues for early, adaptable declustering and stats.
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Paper ID
h47c4af5f22e1f526
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1988
Pagerank
0.00025700375
Overall Rank
191 | 98.72%
DOI
10.1145/50202.50213
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Authors
1.
George Copeland
(Microelectronics And Technology Computer Corporation)
2.
William Alexander
(Microelectronics And Technology Computer Corporation)
3.
Ellen Boughter
(Microelectronics And Technology Computer Corporation)
4.
Tom Keller
(Microelectronics And Technology Computer Corporation)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{copeland_sigmod88,
title = {{Data Placement In Bubba}},
author = {Copeland, George and Alexander, William and Boughter, Ellen and Keller, Tom},
series = {{SIGMOD} '88},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/50202.50213},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/50202.50213},
year = {1988}
}
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