Design and Evaluation of a Configurable Query Processing Hardware for Data Streams

Yasin OGE
Masato YOSHIMI
Takefumi MIYOSHI
Hideyuki KAWASHIMA
Hidetsugu IRIE
Tsutomu YOSHINAGA

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems   Vol.E98-D    No.12    pp.2207-2217
Publication Date: 2015/12/01
Publicized: 2015/09/14
Online ISSN: 1745-1361
DOI: 10.1587/transinf.2015EDP7203
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Computer System
Keyword: 
FPGA,  query processing,  data stream,  sliding-window aggregation,  configurable hardware architecture,  

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Summary: 
In this paper, we propose Configurable Query Processing Hardware (CQPH), an FPGA-based accelerator for continuous query processing over data streams. CQPH is a highly optimized and minimal-overhead execution engine designed to deliver real-time response for high-volume data streams. Unlike most of the other FPGA-based approaches, CQPH provides on-the-fly configurability for multiple queries with its own dynamic configuration mechanism. With a dedicated query compiler, SQL-like queries can be easily configured into CQPH at run time. CQPH supports continuous queries including selection, group-by operation and sliding-window aggregation with a large number of overlapping sliding windows. As a proof of concept, a prototype of CQPH is implemented on an FPGA platform for a case study. Evaluation results indicate that a given query can be configured within just a few microseconds, and the prototype implementation of CQPH can process over 150 million tuples per second with a latency of less than a microsecond. Results also indicate that CQPH provides linear scalability to increase its flexibility (i.e., on-the-fly configurability) without sacrificing performance (i.e., maximum allowable clock speed).


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