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Referential Integrity in Cloud NoSQL Databases

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Cloud computing delivers on-demand access to essential computing services providing benefits such as reduced maintenance, lower costs, global access, and others. One of its important and prominent services is Database as a Service (DaaS) which includes cloud Database Management Systems (DBMSs). Cloud DBMSs commonly adopt the key-value data model and are called Not only SQL (NoSQL) DBMSs. These provide cloud suitable features like scalability, flexibility and robustness, but in order to provide these, features such as referential integrity are often sacrificed. In such cases, referential integrity is left to be dealt with by the applications instead of being handled by the cloud DBMSs. Thus, applications are required to either deal with inconsistency in the data (e.g. dangling references) or to incorporate the necessary logic to ensure that referential integrity is maintained. This thesis presents an Application Programming Interface (API) that serves as a middle layer between the applications and the cloud DBMS in order to maintain referential integrity. The API provides the necessary Create, Read, Update and Delete (CRUD) operations to be performed on the DBMS while ensuring that the referential integrity constraints are satisfied. These constraints are represented as metadata and four different approaches are provided to store it. Furthermore, the performance of these approaches is measured with different referential integrity constraints and evaluated upon a set of experiments in Apache Cassandra, a prominent cloud NoSQL DBMS. The results showed significant differences between the approaches in terms of performance. However, the final word on which one is better depends on the application demands as each approach presents different trade-offs.

History

Copyright Date

2012-01-01

Date of Award

2012-01-01

Publisher

Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington

Rights License

Author Retains Copyright

Degree Discipline

Software Engineering

Degree Grantor

Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington

Degree Level

Masters

Degree Name

Master of Engineering

Victoria University of Wellington Item Type

Awarded Research Masters Thesis

Language

en_NZ

Victoria University of Wellington School

School of Engineering and Computer Science

Advisors

Mogin, Pavle