FlashLogging: A Synchronous Logging Mechanism.

Name Roll No : Pooja Patil : 100

Division : B USN : 2BV08IS063

Abstract: As we find the Flash Drives as one of the needful requirements in day-to-day life, we exploit the Flash drives (USB drives) for synchronous logging performance. Synchronous logging is one of the mechanism for ensuring data persistency and recoverability in database systems. Flash drives exhibit a property of small sequential write pattern of synchronous logging. When compared to flash devices(drives), magnetic disks are ill suited for the small sequential write pattern of synchronous logging and alternative solutions are either expensive or complicated. Studying the characteristics and features of variety of flash drives we find that USB flash drives are well suited for this task because of their unique characteristics: widely available USB ports, hot-plug capability and low price. Here we propose a technique, Flash Logging, a logging solution that exploits multiple (USB) flash drives for synchronous logging. This has been implemented within MySQL-InnoDB and the results show flash logging archives high performance over magnetic-disk-based logging. Keywords: Flash Logging, Synchronous Logging, Flash Devices, USB, Magnetic disks References: [1] Shimin Chen, FlashLogging: Exploiting Flash Devices for Synchronous Logging Performance, SIGMOD09, USA, 2009 [2] Ioannis Koltsidas and Stratis D. Viglas, Data Management Over Flash Memory, SIGMOD11, Athens, Greece, 2011, PP 1209-1212 [3] P. Bonnet and L. Bouganim, Flash Device Support for Database Management. In Proc. 5th Biennial Conf. on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR '11), 2011.