Jens Teubner
Louis Woods
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While offering unique performance and energy-saving advantages, the use of Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) for database acceleration has demanded major concessions from system designers. Either the programmable chips have been used for very basic application tasks (such as implementing a rigid class of selection predicates) or their circuit definition had to be completely recompiled at runtime—a very CPU-intensive and time-consuming effort.
This work eliminates the need for such concessions. As part of our XLynx implementation—an FPGA-based XML filter—we present skeleton automata, which is a design principle for data-intensive hardware circuits that offers high expressiveness and quick reconfiguration at the same time. Skeleton automata provide a generic implementation for a class of finite-state automata. They can be parameterized to any particular automaton instance in a matter of microseconds or less (as opposed to minutes or hours for complete recompilation).
We showcase skeleton automata based on XML projection [Marian and Siméon 2003], a filtering technique that illustrates the feasibility of our strategy for a real-world and challenging task. By performing XML projection in hardware and filtering data in the network, we report on performance improvements of several factors while remaining nonintrusive to the back-end XML processor (we evaluate XLynx using the Saxon engine).
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- XLynx—An FPGA-based XML filter for hybrid XQuery processing
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