Towards Efficient and Flexible Object Storage Using Resource and Functional Partitioning

Abstract

Modern storage systems are designed to manage data without considering the dynamicity of user or resource requirements. This design approach does not consider the complexities of the dynamically changing runtime application behaviors as well as the unique features of underlying resources. To this end, this dissertation studies how resource and functional partitioning strategies can improve efficiency and flexibility of object stores. This dissertation presents a series of practical and efficient techniques, algorithms, and optimizations to realize efficient and flexible object stores. The experimental evaluation demonstrates the effectiveness of our design choices and strategies to make object stores flexible and resource-aware.