State-of-the-art distributed RDF systems partition data across multiple computer nodes (workers). Some systems perform cheap hash partitioning, which may result in expensive query evaluation. Others try to minimize inter-node communication, which requires an expensive data pre-processing phase, leading to a high startup cost. Apriori knowledge of the query workload has also been used to create partitions, which however are static and do not adapt to workload changes.
In this paper, we propose AdPart, a distributed RDF system, which addresses the shortcomings of previous work. First, AdPart applies lightweight partitioning on the initial data, that distributes triples by hashing on their subjects; this renders its startup overhead low. At the same time, the locality-aware query optimizer of AdPart takes full advantage of the partitioning to (i) support the fully parallel processing of join patterns on subjects and (ii) minimize data communication for general queries by applying hash distribution of intermediate results instead of broadcasting, wherever possible. Second, AdPart monitors the data access patterns and dynamically redistributes and replicates the instances of the most frequent ones among workers. As a result, the communication cost for future queries is drastically reduced or even eliminated. To control replication, AdPart implements an eviction policy for the redistributed patterns. Our experiments with synthetic and real data verify that AdPart: (i) starts faster than all existing systems; (ii) processes thousands of queries before other systems become online; and (iii) gracefully adapts to the query load, being able to evaluate queries on billion-scale RDF data in sub-seconds.
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Relevant publications:
1) Razen Harbi, Ibrahim Abdelaziz, Panos Kalnis, Nikos Mamoulis, Yasser Ebrahim, Majed Sahli. Adaptive Partitioning for Very Large RDF Data. CoRR abs/1505.02728 (2015)
2) Razen Harbi, Ibrahim Abdelaziz, Panos Kalnis, Nikos Mamoulis. Evaluating SPARQL Queries on Massive RDF Datasets. PVLDB 8(12): 1848-1859 (2015)