Data Management on Non-Volatile Memory
In this talk, I will present my research on the design and development of an NVM DBMS, called Peloton. Peloton's architecture shows that the impact of NVM spans across all the layers of the DBMS. I will first introduce write-behind logging, an NVM-centric protocol that improves the availability of the database system by two orders-of-magnitude compared to the widely-used write-ahead logging protocol. I will then present the BzTree, an NVM-centric index data structure that illustrates how to simplify programming on NVM. In drawing broader lessons from this work, I will argue that all types of software systems, including file systems, machine-learning systems, and key-value stores, are amenable to similar architectural changes to achieve high performance and availability on NVM.
Bio:
Joy Arulraj is a Ph.D. candidate at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests are in database systems and data science. As part of his dissertation work, he has studied and built the first non-volatile memory database system, called Peloton, for performing large-scale transaction processing and real-time data analytics. He is the recipient of the Carnegie Mellon Presidential Fellowship and a Samsung Ph.D. Fellowship.