Bundled References: An Abstraction for Highly-Concurrent Linearizable Range Queries

We present bundled references, a new building block to provide linearizable range query operations for highly concurrent linked data structures. Bundled references allow range queries to traverse a path through the data structure that is consistent with the target atomic snapshot and is made of the...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2020-12
Main Authors: Nelson, Jacob, Hassan, Ahmed, Palmieri, Roberto
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Binary system
Bundling
Data structures
Queries
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Summary:We present bundled references, a new building block to provide linearizable range query operations for highly concurrent linked data structures. Bundled references allow range queries to traverse a path through the data structure that is consistent with the target atomic snapshot and is made of the minimal amount of nodes that should be accessed to preserve linearizability. We implement our technique into a skip list, a binary search tree, and a linked list data structure. Our evaluation reveals that in mixed workloads, our design improves upon the state-of-the-art techniques by 3.9x for a skip list and 2.1x for a binary search tree. We also integrate our bundled data structure into the DBx1000 in-memory database, yielding up to 20% gain over the same competitors.
ISSN:2331-8422