Abstract

Stateless services are easy to scale in the cloud since new replicas of these services can be created at any time and they operate completely independently of other instances. In contrast, scaling stateful services, such as a database sys- tem, can take minutes or even hours due to the need to present a consistent view of the system for users of the ser- vice. Currently, this problem is addressed by resource over- provisioning in anticipation of demand spikes. FlurryDB uses virtual machine cloning to improve resource utilization by drastically reducing the latency required to add a new replica. We also show that FlurryDB is capable of handling updates to resources in a fashion that preserves consistency across the cloning boundary.

 

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