gokul [at] university of toronto

Gokul Soundararajan		Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Toronto 10 King's College Road Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G4 Canada
Gokul Soundararajan

I am a PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Toronto. My supervisor is Cristiana Amza. I am broadly interested in Distributed Systems and Autonomic Systems. I also look into the research happening in Operating Systems and Security from time to time.

APACHE DERBY

as described on Derby's Website

Apache Derby, an Apache DB subproject, is a relational database implemented entirely in Java and available under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

Some key advantages include:

Derby has a small footprint -- about 2 megabytes for the base engine and embedded JDBC driver.
Derby is based on the Java, JDBC, and SQL standards.
Derby provides an embedded JDBC driver that lets you embed Derby in any Java-based solution.
Derby also supports the more familiar client/server mode with the Derby Network Client JDBC driver and Derby Network Server.
Derby is easy to install, deploy, and use.

If you're new to Derby, check out the Quick Start page.

More info at Derby Wiki and Mailing Lists

GUIDES & REPORTS

1	Implementing a Better Cache Replacement Algorithm in Apache Derby
	Gokul Soundararajan
	A Progress report as of August 19, 2006 highlighting my efforts in implementing a better cache replacement algorithm in Apache Derby.
	Paper Available as PDF

CODE

1	August 19, 2006
	Gokul Soundararajan
	This release contains code upto August 19, 2006 - It includes ClockProCache - my implementation of the ClockPro algorithm within in the Derby CacheManager interface PluggableCache - my attempt at a separation of the implementation and policies. Simulator - to evaluate the different cache replacement algorithms, I implemented a simulator with various algorithms Testing - to evaluate the approaches, I wrote some simple tests
	Link to code: CODE . (See appropriate sub-directories)