A High Throughput B plus tree for SIMD Architectures

doi:10.1109/TPDS.2019.2942918

2020-03-01

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Weihua Zhang *

Yuzhe Lin

Lu Peng

DOI：10.1109/TPDS.2019.2942918

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B+tree is one of the most important data structures and has been widely used in different fields. With the increase of concurrent queries and data-scale in storage, designing an efficient B+tree structure has become critical. Due to abundant computation resources, SIMD architectures provide potential opportunities to achieve high query throughput for B+tree. However, prior methods cannot achieve satisfactory performance results due to low resource utilization and poor memory performance. In this paper, we first identify the gaps between B+tree and SIMD architectures. Concurrent B+tree queries involve many global memory accesses and different divergences, which mismatch with SIMD architecture features. Based on this observation, we propose Harmonia, a novel B+tree structure to bridge the gaps. In Harmonia, a B+tree structure is divided into a key region and a child region. The key region stores the nodes with its keys in a breadth-first order. The child region is organized as a prefix-sum array, which only stores each nodes first child index in the key region. Since the prefix-sum child region is small and the childrens index can be retrieved through index computations, most of it can be stored in on-chip caches, which can achieve good cache locality. To make it more efficient, Harmonia also includes two optimizations: partially-sorted aggregation and narrowed thread-group traversal, which can mitigate memory and execution divergence and improve resource utilization. Evaluations on a 28-core INTEL CPU show that Harmonia can achieve up to 207 million queries per second, which is about 1.7X faster than that of CPU-based HB+Tree [1] , a recent state-of-the-art solution. And on a Volta TITAN V GPU, it can achieve up to 3.6 billion queries per second, which is about 3.4X faster than that of GPU-based HB+Tree.

Keyword:

Indexes

Throughput

Resource management

Vegetation

Memory management

Data structures

SIMD

B plus tree

high-throughput