MS Research Tech Report - BitVault: a Highly Reliable Distributed Data Retention Platform

MSR-TR-2005-179 BitVault: a Highly Reliable Distributed Data Retention Platform by Zheng Zhang; Qiao Lian; Shiding Lin; Wei Chen; Yu Chen; Chao Jin December 2005 http://research.microsoft.com/research/pubs/view.aspx?tr_id=1035 Abstract: In this paper, we report the design and implementation of the storage layer of BitVault: a content-addressable retention platform for large volume of reference data - seldom-changing information that needs to be retained for a long period of time. BitVault uses "smart brick" as the building block to lower the hardware cost. However, the challenges are to maintain low management cost in a system that needs to scale all the way from one brick to tens of thousands of bricks, to ensure reliability and to deliver with a simple enough design. Our design incorporates P2P technologies for its self-managing and self-healing capabilities and uses massively parallel repair to reduce vulnerability window of data loss. The simplicity of the architecture relies ...

05:00:00 January 13, 2006, Friday (PST) Source: TheArchitect.co.uk - Jorgen Thelin's weblog

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