Abstract:
Computer systems are a major component in the current complex era. In computer
systems, to archive data and information in a well-defined manner, database
management systems (DBMSs) are used. Among the plenty of DBMS vendors,
Apache Cassandra is a popular no-SQL DBMS. According to traditional computer
system infrastructure management, DBMSs are launched on virtual machines. After
the arrival of containerization, most software applications and services were launched
on container-oriented infrastructure. Docker is the most popular and trending
container vendor. This research study aims to evaluate the performance of Apache
Cassandra DBMS on both Docker-based infrastructure and virtual machine-based
infrastructure. Docker containerized infrastructure was launched on Ubuntu 18.04
Long Term Support (used package with architecture: GNU/Linux 4.15.0-112-generic
x86_64) cloud-based operating system. The host computer was with 15 GB memory
capacity and 1 Gbps network bandwidth. On that host computer infrastructure, Docker
version 19.03.9 was launched. Both Docker client and server engine communities are
version 19.03.9. Docker Application Program Interface (API) version was 1.40. The
same host infrastructure was used for the virtual machine-based infrastructure. By
executing queries with 5, 50, 500, 5000, and 50000 data records on the Apache
Cassandra DBMS, a particular performance evaluation was made. According to the
query execution time, the increment of performance on Docker infrastructure was
0.244 (SELECT), 0.295 (DELETE), 0.496 (UPDATE), and 0.708 (INSERT) with
95% confidence. The experiment depicts that the Docker-based platform presents a
higher and more advanced infrastructure for the Apache Cassandra DBMS.
