DBOS: a DBMS-oriented operating system
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Skiadopoulos, Athinagoras; Li, Qian; Kraft, Peter; Kaffes, Kostis; Hong, Daniel; Mathew, Shana; Bestor, David; Cafarella, Michael; Gadepally, Vijay; Graefe, Goetz; Kepner, Jeremy; Kozyrakis, Christos; Kraska, Tim; Stonebraker, Michael; Suresh, Lalith; Zaharia, Matei; ... Show more Show less
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<jats:p>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.</jats:p>
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2021Department
Lincoln Laboratory; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence LaboratoryJournal
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
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VLDB Endowment
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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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