A major cause of failures in large database manage-ment systems (DBMS) is operator faults. Although most of the complex DBMS have comprehensive recovery mecha¬nisms, the effectiveness of these mechanisms is difficult to characterize. On the other hand, the tuning of a large database is very complex and database administrators tend to concentrate on performance tuning and disregard the recovery mechanisms. Above all, database adminis¬trators seldom have feedback on how good a given con¬figuration is concerning recovery. This paper proposes an experimental approach to characterize both the perfor-mance and the recoverability in DBMS. Our approach is presented through a concrete example of benchmarking the performance and recovery of an Oracle DBMS run¬ning the standard TPC-C benchmark, extended to include two new elements: a faultload based on operator faults and measures related to recoverability. A classification of operator faults in DBMS is proposed. The paper ends with the discussion of the results and the proposal of guidelines to help database administrators in finding the balance between performance and recovery tuning.
Subject
Experimental COTS Evaluation
Related Project
DBench - Dependability Benchmarking
Conference
The International Symposium on Dependable Systems and Networks, DSN-IPDS 2002, June 2002
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