In:
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Vol. 15, No. 1 ( 2021-09), p. 21-30
Abstract:
This paper lays out the rationale for building a completely new operating system (OS) stack. Rather than build on a single node OS together with separate cluster schedulers, distributed filesystems, and network managers, we argue that a distributed transactional DBMS should be the basis for a scalable cluster OS. We show herein that such a database OS (DBOS) can do scheduling, file management, and inter-process communication with competitive performance to existing systems. In addition, significantly better analytics can be provided as well as a dramatic reduction in code complexity through implementing OS services as standard database queries, while implementing low-latency transactions and high availability only once.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
2150-8097
DOI:
10.14778/3485450.3485454
Language:
English
Publisher:
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publication Date:
2021
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2478691-3
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