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Summary: Database Systems on Virtual Machines: How Much do You Lose?
Umar Farooq Minhas
University of Waterloo
Jitendra Yadav
IIT Kanpur
Ashraf Aboulnaga
University of Waterloo
Kenneth Salem
University of Waterloo
Abstract
Virtual machine technologies offer simple and practical
mechanisms to address many manageability problems in
database systems. For example, these technologies allow
for server consolidation, easier deployment, and more flex-
ible provisioning. Therefore, database systems are increas-
ingly being run on virtual machines. This offers many op-
portunities for researchers in self-managing database sys-
tems, but it is also important to understand the cost of virtu-
alization. In this paper, we present an experimental study of
the overhead of running a database workload on a virtual
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