CPU and incremental memory allocation in dynamic parallelization of SQL queries

In order to re-adjust the parallel execution of SQL queries in case of metric estimation or discretization errors, we propose an incremental parallelization method which carries out simultaneously both scheduling and mapping in co-operation with two incremental memory allocation heuristics (ParAd: parallelism degree adjustment, and MaCRelax: mapping clues relaxation) in a dynamic multi-user context. The two incremental memory allocation heuristics are integrated in the mapping method which attempt to avoid time-consuming multi-bucket join execution generating numerous additional I/O. A performance evaluation of the ParAd heuristic shows: (i) a significant join response time savings (from 16.11% to 35.62%), and (ii) with many complex queries, a more significant gain in response time (from 29% to 54%). (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.