Master’s Thesis Presentation • Algorithms and Complexity • Extremely Fast (a,b)-trees at all Contention LevelsExport this event to calendar

Monday, August 16, 2021 1:00 PM EDT

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online.

Anubhav Srivastava, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Trevor Brown

The ordered dictionary is one of the most fundamental abstract data types. It stores a set of key-value pairs, and supports operations to insert, remove and retrieve key-value pairs. It can also support range query operations.

In this thesis presentation, I will describe how (a,b)-trees (a generalization of B-trees) with simple optimistic locking can yield concurrent dictionaries that outperform state-of-the-art implementations. The trees perform particularly well under update-heavy workloads (in some cases outperforming all leading trees by a factor of 2). I also describe how elimination, a well-known idea in concurrent stacks, can be applied to further accelerate performance in skewed access distributions (in which some keys are accessed/updated more often than others).


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200 University Avenue West

Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1
Canada
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