Kiminori Matsuzaki | Searcharxiv

arXiv2018

Parallelization of XPath Queries using Modern XQuery Processors

A practical and promising approach to parallelizing XPath queries was proposed by Bordawekar et al. in 2009, which enables parallelization on top of existing XML database engines. Although they experimentally demonstrated the speedup by their approach, their practice has already been out of date because the software environment has largely changed with the capability of XQuery processing. In this work, we implement their approach in two ways on top of a state-of-the-art XML database engine and experimentally demonstrate that our implementations can bring significant speedup on a commodity server.

cs.DB↗

arXiv2014

Simultaneous Finite Automata: An Efficient Data-Parallel Model for Regular Expression Matching

Automata play important roles in wide area of computing and the growth of multicores calls for their efficient parallel implementation. Though it is known in theory that we can perform the computation of a finite automaton in parallel by simulating transitions, its implementation has a large overhead due to the simulation. In this paper we propose a new automaton called simultaneous finite automaton (SFA) for efficient parallel computation of an automaton. The key idea is to extend an automaton so that it involves the simulation of transitions. Since an SFA itself has a good property of parallelism, we can develop easily a parallel implementation without overheads. We have implemented a regular expression matcher based on SFA, and it has achieved over 10-times speedups on an environment with dual hexa-core CPUs in a typical case.

cs.FL↗