Concurrent Processing of Increments in Online Integration of Semi-structured Data

An online integration system enables incremental computation shortly after an increment data arrived at the central site. Processing increments serially ensures all data containers are in their updated states for computation of the next increment data. In general, a data container may show up as several arguments in a data integration expression. Serial processing of increments at this data container failed to show its best performance due to expensive IO costs for materialization updates. This paper proposes an online integration system with dynamic scheduling to enable concurrent processing of increments of data. The online integration system allows a series of transformation of a data integration expression into a single increment expression upon the increments of multiple data containers, and generates a data integration plan. The dynamic scheduling system employs a monitoring system and a priority scheduling which is able to dynamically change the data integration plans according to the increment data behavior.