• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.3 no.9
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• pp.349-354
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• 2014

Since Hadoop which is the Big-data processing platform was announced, SQL-on-Hadoop is the spotlight as the technique to analyze data using SQL on Hadoop. Tajo created by Korean programmers has recently been promoted to Top-Level-Project status by the Apache in April and has been paid attention all around world. Despite a sensible change caused by Hadoop's appearance in DW market, researches of those performance is insufficient. Thus, this study has been conducted to help choose a DW solution based on SQL-on-Hadoop as progressing the test on comparison analysis of RDBMS and Tajo. It has shown that Tajo based on Hadoop is more superior than RDBMS if it is used with accurate strategy. In addition, open-source project Tajo is expected not only to achieve improvements in technique due to active participation of many developers but also to be in charge of an important role of DW in the filed of data analysis.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.43 no.7
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• pp.820-826
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• 2016

There is a growing requirement for big data processing which extracts valuable information from a large amount of data. The Hadoop system employs the MapReduce framework to process big data. However, MapReduce has limitations such as inflexible and slow data processing. To overcome these drawbacks, SQL query processing techniques known as SQL-on-Hadoop were developed. Apache Tajo, one of the SQL-on-Hadoop techniques, was developed by a Korean development group. External merge sort is one of the heavily used algorithms in Tajo for query processing. The performance of external merge sort in Tajo is influenced by two parameters, sort buffer size and fanout. In this paper, we analyzed the performance of external merge sort in Tajo with various sort buffer sizes and fanouts. In addition, we figured out that there are two major causes of differences in the performance of external merge sort: CPU cache misses which increase as the sort buffer size grows; and the number of merge passes determined by fanout.