Rethinking Adaptability in Wide-Area Stream Processing Systems

Authors: 

Albert Jonathan, Abhishek Chandra, and Jon Weissman, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Abstract: 

Adaptability is an important property of stream processing systems since the systems need to maintain low latency and high throughput execution of long-running queries. In a wide-area environment, dynamics are common not only because of the workload variability but also the nature of wide-area network (WAN) bandwidth that frequently changes. In this work, we study the adaptability property of stream processing systems designed for a wide-area environment. Specifically, we (1) discuss the challenges of reconfiguring query executions in a wide-area environment, (2) propose ideas how to adapt existing reconfiguration techniques used in centralized Cloud to a wide-area environment, and (3) discuss the trade-offs between them. A key finding is that the best adaptation technique to use depends on the network conditions, types of query, and optimization metrics.

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BibTeX
@inproceedings {216845,
author = {Albert Jonathan and Abhishek Chandra and Jon Weissman},
title = {Rethinking Adaptability in {Wide-Area} Stream Processing Systems},
booktitle = {10th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud 18)},
year = {2018},
address = {Boston, MA},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotcloud18/presentation/jonathan},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = jul
}