DBOS: a DBMS-oriented operating system
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Author(s)
Skiadopoulos, Athinagoras
Li, Qian
Kraft, Peter
Kaffes, Kostis
Hong, Daniel
Mathew, Shana
Bestor, David
Cafarella, Michael
Gadepally, Vijay
Graefe, Goetz
Date Issued
2021
Journal
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
Publisher
VLDB Endowment
Citation
Skiadopoulos, Athinagoras, Li, Qian, Kraft, Peter, Kaffes, Kostis, Hong, Daniel et al. 2021. "DBOS: a DBMS-oriented operating system." Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 15 (1).
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Abstract
This paper lays out the rationale for building a completely new operating system (OS) stack. Rather than build on a single node OS together with separate cluster schedulers, distributed filesystems, and network managers, we argue that a distributed transactional DBMS should be the basis for a scalable cluster OS. We show herein that such a database OS (DBOS) can do scheduling, file management, and inter-process communication with competitive performance to existing systems. In addition, significantly better analytics can be provided as well as a dramatic reduction in code complexity through implementing OS services as standard database queries, while implementing low-latency transactions and high availability only once.
MIT Department
Lincoln Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
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https://doi.org/10.14778/3485450.3485454
