Seventh Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC'00)
Visualising the influence of data structure choice on the performance of a distributed database system
Singapore
December 05-December 08
ISBN: 0-7695-0915-0
C. Churcher, Appl. Comput. Math. & Stat. Group, Lincoln Univ., Canterbury, New Zealand
A. McKinnon, Appl. Comput. Math. & Stat. Group, Lincoln Univ., Canterbury, New Zealand
R. Jarquin, Appl. Comput. Math. & Stat. Group, Lincoln Univ., Canterbury, New Zealand
The choice of data structure is an important decision in any software project. Application developers do not necessarily have a good understanding of how a particular system manages its data structures and how this might influence performance. We provide visualisations representing the behaviour of different data structures in an object oriented distributed database system. The data is obtained from cache monitoring software and the visualisations therefore represent the actual, as opposed to the theoretical, behaviour. The visualisations can be used as a supplement to the textual description of how a particular system manages its data structures so providing developers, educators and students with a clearer understanding of the implications of their choice of data structure.
Index Terms:
data structures; object-oriented databases; distributed databases; software development management; project management; system monitoring; client-server systems; data visualisation; cache storage; data structure choice; visualisation; software project; object oriented distributed database system performance; cache monitoring software; textual description
Citation:
C. Churcher, A. McKinnon, R. Jarquin, "Visualising the influence of data structure choice on the performance of a distributed database system," apsec, pp.472, Seventh Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC'00), 2000
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