Packing light: Portable workload performance prediction for the cloud

Jennie Duggan, Yun Chi, Hakan Hacigumus, Shenghuo Zhu, Ugur Cetintemel

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17 Scopus citations

Abstract

We introduce a new learning-based solution for portable database workload performance prediction. The current state of the art addresses performance prediction for individual, static hardware configurations and thus cannot generalize to new platforms without additional training. In this work, we focus on analytical databases that might be deployed on different hardware configurations, possibly offered by various Infrastructureas-a-Service (IaaS) providers in the cloud. Enabling workload performance predictions that can be ported across hardware configurations and IaaS offerings could significantly help cloud users with their service-purchase decisions and cloud providers with their provisioning decisions. Our solution is based on collaborative filtering modeling and prediction. We applied it to lightweight workload fingerprints that model the characteristics and behavior of concurrent query workloads for carefully selected, abstract hardware configurations. Our preliminary results are derived from experiments with TPC-H and TPC-DS benchmarks on the Amazon and Rackspace clouds. They demonstrate that our techniques can predict analytical workload throughput values for diverse hardware platforms with low training overhead and within approximately 30% of the correct figure.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2013 IEEE 29th International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops, ICDEW 2013
Pages258-265
Number of pages8
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Event2013 IEEE 29th International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops, ICDEW 2013 - Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Duration: Apr 8 2013Apr 11 2013

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Data Engineering
ISSN (Print)1084-4627

Other

Other2013 IEEE 29th International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops, ICDEW 2013
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CityBrisbane, QLD
Period4/8/134/11/13

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Signal Processing
  • Information Systems

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