Memory-Adaptive External Sorting.

HweeHwa Pang, Michael J. Carey, Miron Livny: Memory-Adaptive External Sorting. VLDB 1993: 618-629

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/vldb/PangCL93,
  author    = {HweeHwa Pang and
               Michael J. Carey and
               Miron Livny},
  editor    = {Rakesh Agrawal and
               Se{\'a}n Baker and
               David A. Bell},
  title     = {Memory-Adaptive External Sorting},
  booktitle = {19th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, August
               24-27, 1993, Dublin, Ireland, Proceedings},
  publisher = {Morgan Kaufmann},
  year      = {1993},
  isbn      = {1-55860-152-X},
  pages     = {618-629},
  ee        = {db/conf/vldb/PangCL93.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/vldb/93},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

Abstract

In real-time and goal-oriented database systems, the amount of memory assigned to queries that sort or join large relations may fluctuate due to contention from other higher- priority transactions. This study focuses on techniques that enable external sorts both to reduce their buffer usage when they lose memory, and to effectively utilize any additionalbuffers that are given to them. We also show how these techniques can be extended to work with sort-merge joins. A series of experiments confirms that our proposed techniques are useful for sorting and joining large relations in the face of memory fluctuations.

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