KiWi: A Key-Value Map for Scalable Real-Time Analytics

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Feb 4, 2017
Abstract

Modern big data processing platforms employ huge in- memory key-value (KV) maps. Their applications simul- taneously drive high-rate data ingestion and large-scale ana- lytics. These two scenarios expect KV-map implementations that scale well with both real-time updates and large atomic scans triggered by range queries.

We present KiWi, the first atomic KV-map to efficiently support simultaneous large scans and real-time access. The key to achieving this is treating scans as first class citi- zens, and organizing the data structure around them. KiWi provides wait-free scans, whereas its put operations are lightweight and lock-free. It optimizes memory manage- ment jointly with data structure access. We implement KiWi and compare it to state-of-the-art solutions. Compared to other KV-maps providing atomic scans, KiWi performs ei- ther long scans or concurrent puts an order of magnitude faster. Its scans are twice as fast as non-atomic ones imple- mented via iterators in the Java skiplist.

  • Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP 2017)
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