Abstract

We present a storage management system that has the ability to adapt to the data access characteristics of the application that uses it based on collection and analysis of runtime statistics. This feature is especially useful in the storage management layer of database systems, where applications exhibit relatively predictable access patterns. Adaptive reorganization is performed by the storage management system in a manner that optimizes the access patterns of the system for which it is used. We enhance the log-structured storage system that naturally caters for write optimization, with the addition of a statistics collection mechanism to determine data access patterns of applications. The storage system can serve as a testbed for a variety of statistics analysis and clustering mechanisms. Higher level application-specific data clustering mechanisms can be used to override the storage system's low-level clustering mechanisms. In addition, the analysis techniques and reorganization scheme can be used in other storage systems. Performance results from our prototype show potential response time speedups of up to 83 percent over the basic log-structured file system in the best case, using a combination of storage reorganization and prefetching.

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