Massive scale of transactions with critical requirements become popular for emerging businesses,especially in E-commerce.One of the most representative applications is the promotional event running on Alibaba's pl...Massive scale of transactions with critical requirements become popular for emerging businesses,especially in E-commerce.One of the most representative applications is the promotional event running on Alibaba's platform on some special dates,widely expected by global customers.Although we have achieved significant progress in improving the scalability of transactional database systems(OLTP),the presence of contention operations in workloads is still one of the fundamental obstacles to performance improving.The reason is that the overhead of managing conflict transactions with concurrency control mechanisms is proportional to the amount of contentions.As a consequence,generating contented workloads is urgent to evaluate performance of modern OLTP database systems.Though we have kinds of standard benchmarks which provide some ways in simulating contentions,e.g.,skew distribution control of transactions,they can not control the generation of contention quantitatively;even worse,the simulation effectiveness of these methods is affected by the scale of data.So in this paper we design a scalable quantitative contention generation method with fine contention granularity control.We conduct a comprehensive set of experiments on popular opensourced DBMSs compared with the latest contention simulation method to demonstrate the effectiveness of our generation work.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.62072179)ECNUOceanBase Joint Lab of Distributed Database System and 2020 the Key Software Adaptation and Verification Project(Database).
文摘Massive scale of transactions with critical requirements become popular for emerging businesses,especially in E-commerce.One of the most representative applications is the promotional event running on Alibaba's platform on some special dates,widely expected by global customers.Although we have achieved significant progress in improving the scalability of transactional database systems(OLTP),the presence of contention operations in workloads is still one of the fundamental obstacles to performance improving.The reason is that the overhead of managing conflict transactions with concurrency control mechanisms is proportional to the amount of contentions.As a consequence,generating contented workloads is urgent to evaluate performance of modern OLTP database systems.Though we have kinds of standard benchmarks which provide some ways in simulating contentions,e.g.,skew distribution control of transactions,they can not control the generation of contention quantitatively;even worse,the simulation effectiveness of these methods is affected by the scale of data.So in this paper we design a scalable quantitative contention generation method with fine contention granularity control.We conduct a comprehensive set of experiments on popular opensourced DBMSs compared with the latest contention simulation method to demonstrate the effectiveness of our generation work.