Performance Modeling of Distributed Object-Oriented Database Systems

Abstract

A simulation model has been designed to evaluate the performance of distributed object-oriented database systems. By adjusting parameters, a variety of different hardware configurations and workloads can be represented. The model has been used to study a number of performance issues relating to ORION-2, a distributed object-oriented database system being developed by the Advanced Computer Architecture Program at MCC. Experiments show that the central server or the local area network can be a performance bottleneck.