SimpleDynamo

Implementation of a Dynamo-style key-value storage

Prerequisite Installations

1. Install Android Studio

2. Configure -> SDK Manager -> Uncheck Android Studio 10.0 (Q) and check Android 4.4 (KitKat) -> Apply changes

3. Show Package Details -> check Google APIs Intel x86 Atom System Image - > Apply changes

4. Use Java 8 or lower and make sure the appropriate JDK is used in the studio.

5. Enable VM acceleration .

6. Complete some installations if using Ubuntu.

7. Add the following lines to .bash file

   # Android studio paths
   export ANDROID_HOME=$HOME/Android/Sdk
   export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/tools/bin
   export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools
   export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/emulator

Creating the AVDs

All the files can be found the test directory.

# creating AVDs (to be run one time only)
python create_avd.py <numAVDs>
# running the AVDs
python run_avd.py <num_AVDs>
# creating a network to connect the AVDs
python set_redir.py 10000

References

[1] Project Specification (Use PA 4): https://cse.buffalo.edu/~stevko/courses/cse486/spring19/pas.html

[2] Related Paper: DeCandia, Giuseppe, Deniz Hastorun, Madan Jampani, Gunavardhan Kakulapati, Avinash Lakshman, Alex Pilchin, Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Peter Vosshall, and Werner Vogels. "Dynamo: Amazon's highly available key-value store." ACM SIGOPS operating systems review 41, no. 6 (2007): 205-220.

[2] Testing code: Link in Project Specification