SEARS: Space Efficient And Reliable Storage System in the Cloud

TL;DR

SEARS is a cloud storage system that combines erasure coding and data deduplication to improve storage efficiency and retrieval speed for large data, suitable for diverse applications.

Contribution

Introduces SEARS, a novel cloud storage system integrating erasure coding and deduplication for enhanced efficiency and reliability.

Findings

Outperforms existing systems in storage efficiency

Reduces file retrieval time from 7s to 2.5s for 3MB files

Supports flexible configurations for different application needs

Abstract

Today's cloud storage services must offer storage reliability and fast data retrieval for large amount of data without sacrificing storage cost. We present SEARS, a cloud-based storage system which integrates erasure coding and data deduplication to support efficient and reliable data storage with fast user response time. With proper association of data to storage server clusters, SEARS provides flexible mixing of different configurations, suitable for real-time and archival applications. Our prototype implementation of SEARS over Amazon EC2 shows that it outperforms existing storage systems in storage efficiency and file retrieval time. For 3 MB files, SEARS delivers retrieval time of $2.5$ s compared to $7$ s with existing systems.