Towards self-management in a distributed column-store system

Abstract

In this paper, we discuss a self-managed distributed columnstore system which would adapt its physical design to changing workloads. Architectural novelties of column-stores hold a great promise for construction of an efficient self-managed database. At first, we present a short survey of an existing self-managed systems. Then, we provide some views on the organization of a self-managed distributed column-store system. We discuss its three core components: alerter, reorganization controller and the set of physical design options (actions) available to such a system. We present possible approaches to each of these components and evaluate them. This study is the first step towards a creation of an adaptive distributed column-store system.