Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Gupta, Indranil
Department of Study
Computer Science
Discipline
Computer Science
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
M.S.
Degree Level
Thesis
Keyword(s)
Metadata
Not only Standard Query Language (NoSQL)
Cassandra
Abstract
We present Wasef, a metadata system for NoSQL data stores. Wasef allows us to support important features such as data provenance, flexible data operations, and new administration tools. Our system has a general design that can be made compatible with most NoSQL data stores without imposing heavy performance overhead.
We implement a customized version of the Cassandra data store augmented with Wasef, and we compare it experimentally with the standard version. We also provide three use-case scenarios that exploit the metadata collected by our system. First, we support a flexible mechanism for dropping columns that addresses an open major issue in Cassandra 1.2. Second, we make provenance information for Cassandra queries available to the data store clients. Third, we provide a tool for verifying node decommissioning from Cassandra cluster. Our evaluation shows that Wasef provides linear scalability, low throughput overhead of 9%, and read latency overhead of less than 3% compared to the non-metadata default Cassandra. In addition, our system provides steady read and update latencies regardless of the metadata size.
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