Minseop Jeong  Hwansoo Han

10.5626/JOK.2021.48.5.479

caching computing cost model performance benefit prediction parallel data analysis Apache Spark system optimization

In-memory data analytics frameworks provide intermediate results in caching facilities for performance. For effective caching, the actual performance benefits from cached data should be taken into consideration. As existing frameworks only measure execution times at the distributed task level, they have limitations in predicting the cache performance benefits accurately. In this paper, we propose an operator-level time measurement method, which incorporates the existing task-level execution time measurement with our cost prediction model according to input data sizes. Based on the proposed model and the execution flow of the application, we propose a prediction method for the performance benefits from data caching. Our proposed model provides opportunities for cache optimization with predicted performance benefits. Our cost model for operators showed prediction error rate of 7.3% on average, when measured with 10x input data. The difference between predicted performance and actual performance wes limited to within 24%.