A Peer-to-Peer Database Server based on BitTorrent
John Colquhoun
Paul Watson
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Introduction
• If a database server receives queries faster than it can process
them, performance becomes unacceptable
• Similar problems have been addressed in the domain of file-sharing
by the use of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) technologies
• Can we utilise the combined processing power, disk space and
memory of individual clients to reduce the load on the server?
• We examine how P2P techniques could be applied within a
database environment and introduce the Wigan P2P database,
derived from the BitTorrent file-sharing protocol
• Potential applications in e-Science and e-Commerce
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System Architecture
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Implementation
• A simulator of Wigan
• The TPC-H benchmark database was used to evaluate
the design
• Identified cases where Wigan offered a performance
advantage over a Client-Server database and those
areas where it did not
• Experiment results – a busy system where peers
submitted one of a choice of five queries, however
some submitted an entirely random query over a table
of 10,000 tuples
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Simulator Results
120
Average response time (s)
100
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Random queries
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P2P
Client-Server
Database type
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Current work
• Live Wigan system
• Currently under development, using algorithms
developed for the simulator
• Written in Java and uses OGSA-DAI
• Also uses the TPC-H benchmark database
• Experiments are ongoing; in the future the live version will
be used to investigate extensions to the Wigan system
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Live System Results (1)
• Initial experiments with the live system involved
comparing Wigan against accessing data directly from
SQLServer via JDBC
• One of the TPC-H tables is large (approx 6 million tuples)
and hence SQLServer takes some time to evaluate
queries on this table, regardless of the result set size
• However, in Wigan, connecting to a peer that already
has the query results reduces the response time
• In this experiment, all peers submitted the same query
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Live System Results (2)
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Average response time (s)
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Summary
• We designed, implemented & evaluated the Wigan
Peer-to-Peer Database System
• Derived from the popular BitTorrent file-sharing protocol
• The first database server that uses P2P to scale over
multiple peers
• Simulator shows Wigan can outperform client-server db
when:
• There are enough peers available to reduce the load on the
seed
• There is sufficient overlap between the queries
• The system is sufficiently busy so a traditional database server
would become overloaded
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