Hi Folks, I am Abhishek, a senior undergrad student at BIT Mesra, India. I want to contribute to Drizzle as a Google SoC student this summer. I went through the list of ideas. I am particularly interested in "libdrizzle native sharding" project.
I have very good knowledge and experience of C/C++ and computer networking. Some of my achievements that I want to cite in-order to show that I have required skill-set as per the requirements of the project: * Yellow rated coder(rating ~1700) in Topcoder. * Extensive knowledge of STL, Linux system administration. * Among Top 150 coders in world in Project Euler(solved 200+ problems). * Ranked 11th nationwide in Capture The Flag type Virtual Private Network based hacking contest. * I have successfully simulated Secured Zone Routing Protocol using ns-2 simulator and will be publishing a research paper on that soon. * I have experience of working with open-source communities. Last year through GSOC I got chance to work with Mapbender Project. * I have also good understanding of Database internals. And I have taken courses like Distributed Systems, Compilers and Operating Systems. So I have fundamentals clear. Earlier Andrew Hutchings (irc-nick: LinuxJedi) was listed on wiki page as mentor for this project. But now since he isn't available for that project, so I would request somebody from Drizzle community to be mentor for "libdrizzle native sharding" project. I have already kicked off my work for this project. I have development environment ready and working on to solve some of the bugs. For this project I was thinking of implementing a plugin. This plugin would basically serve two purposes: (a) Shard Selection and (b) Shard Resolution. Typically when talking about database sharding there are a couple of decisions an implementation needs to make: How do we assign a shard to a new user? (Shard Selection) How do we resolve the shard that a current object lives in? (Shard Resolution) So the plugin will be using what we call an Index database that holds a minimum of two tables. One which the plugin creates is called which contains a record for every shard in the system along with a capacity of the shard and its usage field. This table is queried every time a new user, is created within the system. We assign the new user to the shard with the lowest usage to capacity ratio. This allows for shards to be located on different types of hardware that should take a smaller or larger number of users. The other table is supplied by the application using the plugin and provides a mapping of the user to the shard to be used. Then whenever a request begins for an object the application should query this table and retrieve the shard to use and then pass that to the plugin to switch to that database. Yesterday I had discussion with Stewart Smith(irc-nick: stewart) regarding this project, then he gave me some ideas regarding libdrizzle re-sharding, i.e. redistribution of the data across the shards (either to achieve proper load balancing or to satisfy application invariants). Should I discuss about how I am thinking about to implement libdrizzle re-sharding in my GSOC application too? Waiting for response from the community. Abhishek Kumar Singh http://www.mapbender.org/User:Abhishek BE/1349/2007 Information Technology 8th SEMESTER BIT MESRA irc: sin8h (irc.freenode.net) skype: singhabhishek.bit mobile: +91-8002111189 -- This message was sent from Launchpad by Abhishek Kumar Singh (https://launchpad.net/~singhabhishek-bit) using the "Contact this team" link on the Drizzle Discuss team page (https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss). For more information see https://help.launchpad.net/YourAccount/ContactingPeople _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
