Wilson's Updates
| Date | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, Feb 13, 2013 | Set up a local YCSB instance with a dummy database and tested by running a core workflow provided by YCSB | N/A |
| Sunday, Feb 24, 2013 | Did a bit of digging on basic usage for MongoDB. Got YCSB to work with MongoDB and successfully running all core workflows provided by YCSB on my local mongoDB instance. | http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/ |
| Saturday, Mar 2, 2013 | Poked around EC2 control panel to get a better idea of how instances were configured and what options were out there. | https://cpsc416.signin.aws.amazon.com/console |
| Saturday, Mar 9, 2013 | Launched and configured 5 medium instances which will be used as the distributive environment to test the different databases. | N/A |
| Sunday, Mar 10, 2013 | Installed mongoDB on all 5 instances. | N/A |
| Saturday, Mar 16, 2013 | Began researching how to set up MongoDB in distributed manner. Looked into replication and sharding. | N/A |
| Sunday, Mar 17, 2013 | Successfully deployed 2 geographically distributed replicas | N/A |
| Wednesday, Mar 20, 2013 | Successfully deployed 2 replica sets spanning 3 instances each, containing a Master, Arbiter and Slave | N/A |
| Thursday, Mar 21, 2013 | Successfully created a shard cluster with each of the 2 existing replica sets representing a shard. Set up MongoDB infrastructure to allow clear and easy configuration of replica sets and the shard cluster. | N/A |
| Thursday, Mar 27, 2013 | Tested limitations on workload capacities with the given instance size. | N/A |
| Thursday, Mar 31, 2013 | Updated shard cluster configuration with new shard key and inner architecture to avoid some errors and achieve minor optimization. | N/A |
| Wednesday, Apr 1-5, 2013 | Performed final benchmark runs. | N/A |
| Wednesday, Apr 3/4, 2013 | Worked on group presentation. | N/A |
| Wednesday, Apr 8, 2013 | Finished final group report. | N/A |