PARINDA: an interactive physical designer for PostgreSQL

One of the most challenging tasks for the database administrator is to physically design the database to attain optimal performance for a given workload. Physical design is hard because it requires the selection of an optimal set of design features from a vast search space. There have been many commercial tools available to automatically suggest the physical design, for a given a set of queries. These tools are, however, based on greedy heuristic pruning, which reduces their usefulness. Furthermore, they are not interactive, as the APIs to simulate the indexes and tables are product specific and hidden from the database administrators. Finally, all these tools are built specifically for commercial systems and there is lack of automated physical designers for open source DBMSs. In this demonstration we introduce

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: EDBT
• Authors: Cristina Maier, Debabrata Dash, Ioannis Alagiannis, Anastasia Ailamaki, Thomas Heinis
• Keywords: Database, EDBT 2010, Open Source, Physical Design, Physical Designer