Copernicus: A Scalable, High-Performance Semantic File System

Published as Storage Systems Research Center Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-09-06.

Abstract

Hierarchical file systems do not effectively meet the needs of users at the petabyte-scale. Users need dynamic, search-based file access in order to properly manage and use their growing sea of data. This paper presents the design of Copernicus, a new scalable, semantic file system that provides a searchable namespace for billions of files. Instead of augmenting a traditional file system with a search index, Copernicus uses a dynamic, graph-based file system design that indexes file attributes and relationships to provide scalable search and navigation of files.

Publication date:
October 2009

Authors:
Andrew Leung
Aleatha Parker-Wood
Ethan L. Miller

Projects:
Scalable File System Indexing
Ultra-Large Scale Storage

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Bibtex entry

@techreport{leung-ssrctr09-06,
  author       = {Andrew Leung and Aleatha Parker-Wood and Ethan L. Miller},
  title        = {Copernicus: A Scalable, High-Performance Semantic File System},
  institution  = {University of California, Santa Cruz},
  number       = {UCSC-SSRC-09-06},
  month        = oct,
  year         = {2009},
}