Scalable Store of Java Objects Using Range Partitioning

Scalable Store of Objects (SSO) should allow for storing and maintaining a huge number of objects distributed over many nodes of a network. RP*N is a structure which belongs to a family of order-preserving, Range Partitioning Scalable Distributed Data Structures (RP* SDDS). The architectures of SDDS were designed to store records. Different structures of objects and complicated dependences between objects are the cause that a new architecture for RP* is needed. The paper describes a new object-oriented version of RP*N architecture and its implementation for Java objects. This version can be used in a fast and scalable store of Java objects. Performance of the implementation is evaluated and compared with serialization of objects on a disk and storing objects as a main-memory collection.