AnyDB: An Architecture-less DBMS for Any Workload

TL;DR

AnyDB introduces a novel architecture-less distributed DBMS that dynamically mimics different architectures per query, enabling flexible workload handling and improved performance over traditional static-architecture systems.

Contribution

This paper presents the concept and initial implementation of an architecture-less DBMS that adapts its architecture on-the-fly without reconfiguration overhead.

Findings

Significant speed-ups over traditional static-architecture DBMSs.

Flexible workload handling through dynamic architecture adaptation.

Initial results demonstrate the feasibility and benefits of the approach.

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a radical new approach for scale-out distributed DBMSs. Instead of hard-baking an architectural model, such as a shared-nothing architecture, into the distributed DBMS design, we aim for a new class of so-called architecture-less DBMSs. The main idea is that an architecture-less DBMS can mimic any architecture on a per-query basis on-the-fly without any additional overhead for reconfiguration. Our initial results show that our architecture-less DBMS AnyDB can provide significant speed-ups across varying workloads compared to a traditional DBMS implementing a static architecture.