DBOS - A Database-oriented Operating System

This project, joint with Stanford, is building a completely new operating system (OS) stack. Rather than build on a single node OS together with separate cluster schedulers, distributed filesystems, and network managers, we propose that a distributed transactional DBMS should be the basis for a scalable cluster OS. We have shown  that such a database OS (DBOS) can do scheduling, file management, and inter-process communication with competitive performance to existing systems. In addition, significantly better analytics can be provided as well as a dramatic reduction in code complexity through implementing OS services as standard database queries, while implementing low-latency transactions and high availability only once. Our plan is to build a complete prototype of DBOS.