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Efficient Iterative Processing in the SciDB Parallel Array Engine
Many scientific data-intensive applications perform iterative computations on
array data. There exist multiple engines specialized for array processing.
These engines efficiently support various types of operations, but none
includes native support for iterative processing. In this paper, we develop a
model for iterative array computations and a series of optimizations. We
evaluate the benefits of an optimized, native support for iterative array
processing on the SciDB engine and real workloads from the astronomy domain
Code Generation for Efficient Query Processing in Managed Runtimes
In this paper we examine opportunities arising from the conver-gence of two trends in data management: in-memory database sys-tems (IMDBs), which have received renewed attention following the availability of affordable, very large main memory systems; and language-integrated query, which transparently integrates database queries with programming languages (thus addressing the famous ‘impedance mismatch ’ problem). Language-integrated query not only gives application developers a more convenient way to query external data sources like IMDBs, but also to use the same querying language to query an application’s in-memory collections. The lat-ter offers further transparency to developers as the query language and all data is represented in the data model of the host program-ming language. However, compared to IMDBs, this additional free-dom comes at a higher cost for query evaluation. Our vision is to improve in-memory query processing of application objects by introducing database technologies to managed runtimes. We focus on querying and we leverage query compilation to im-prove query processing on application objects. We explore dif-ferent query compilation strategies and study how they improve the performance of query processing over application data. We take C] as the host programming language as it supports language-integrated query through the LINQ framework. Our techniques de-liver significant performance improvements over the default LINQ implementation. Our work makes important first steps towards a future where data processing applications will commonly run on machines that can store their entire datasets in-memory, and will be written in a single programming language employing language-integrated query and IMDB-inspired runtimes to provide transparent and highly efficient querying. 1
Declarative Ajax Web Applications through SQL++ on a Unified Application State
Implementing even a conceptually simple web application requires an
inordinate amount of time. FORWARD addresses three problems that reduce
developer productivity: (a) Impedance mismatch across the multiple languages
used at different tiers of the application architecture. (b) Distributed data
access across the multiple data sources of the application (SQL database, user
input of the browser page, session data in the application server, etc). (c)
Asynchronous, incremental modification of the pages, as performed by Ajax
actions.
FORWARD belongs to a novel family of web application frameworks that attack
impedance mismatch by offering a single unifying language. FORWARD's language
is SQL++, a minimally extended SQL. FORWARD's architecture is based on two
novel cornerstones: (a) A Unified Application State (UAS), which is a virtual
database over the multiple data sources. The UAS is accessed via distributed
SQL++ queries, therefore resolving the distributed data access problem. (b)
Declarative page specifications, which treat the data displayed by pages as
rendered SQL++ page queries. The resulting pages are automatically
incrementally modified by FORWARD. User input on the page becomes part of the
UAS.
We show that SQL++ captures the semi-structured nature of web pages and
subsumes the data models of two important data sources of the UAS: SQL
databases and JavaScript components. We show that simple markup is sufficient
for creating Ajax displays and for modeling user input on the page as UAS data
sources. Finally, we discuss the page specification syntax and semantics that
are needed in order to avoid race conditions and conflicts between the user
input and the automated Ajax page modifications.
FORWARD has been used in the development of eight commercial and academic
applications. An alpha-release web-based IDE (itself built in FORWARD) enables
development in the cloud.Comment: Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Database
Programming Languages (DBPL 2013), August 30, 2013, Riva del Garda, Trento,
Ital
PlinyCompute: A Platform for High-Performance, Distributed, Data-Intensive Tool Development
This paper describes PlinyCompute, a system for development of
high-performance, data-intensive, distributed computing tools and libraries. In
the large, PlinyCompute presents the programmer with a very high-level,
declarative interface, relying on automatic, relational-database style
optimization to figure out how to stage distributed computations. However, in
the small, PlinyCompute presents the capable systems programmer with a
persistent object data model and API (the "PC object model") and associated
memory management system that has been designed from the ground-up for high
performance, distributed, data-intensive computing. This contrasts with most
other Big Data systems, which are constructed on top of the Java Virtual
Machine (JVM), and hence must at least partially cede performance-critical
concerns such as memory management (including layout and de/allocation) and
virtual method/function dispatch to the JVM. This hybrid approach---declarative
in the large, trusting the programmer's ability to utilize PC object model
efficiently in the small---results in a system that is ideal for the
development of reusable, data-intensive tools and libraries. Through extensive
benchmarking, we show that implementing complex objects manipulation and
non-trivial, library-style computations on top of PlinyCompute can result in a
speedup of 2x to more than 50x or more compared to equivalent implementations
on Spark.Comment: 48 pages, including references and Appendi
Rumble: Data Independence for Large Messy Data Sets
This paper introduces Rumble, an engine that executes JSONiq queries on
large, heterogeneous and nested collections of JSON objects, leveraging the
parallel capabilities of Spark so as to provide a high degree of data
independence. The design is based on two key insights: (i) how to map JSONiq
expressions to Spark transformations on RDDs and (ii) how to map JSONiq FLWOR
clauses to Spark SQL on DataFrames. We have developed a working implementation
of these mappings showing that JSONiq can efficiently run on Spark to query
billions of objects into, at least, the TB range. The JSONiq code is concise in
comparison to Spark's host languages while seamlessly supporting the nested,
heterogeneous data sets that Spark SQL does not. The ability to process this
kind of input, commonly found, is paramount for data cleaning and curation. The
experimental analysis indicates that there is no excessive performance loss,
occasionally even a gain, over Spark SQL for structured data, and a performance
gain over PySpark. This demonstrates that a language such as JSONiq is a simple
and viable approach to large-scale querying of denormalized, heterogeneous,
arborescent data sets, in the same way as SQL can be leveraged for structured
data sets. The results also illustrate that Codd's concept of data independence
makes as much sense for heterogeneous, nested data sets as it does on highly
structured tables.Comment: Preprint, 9 page
The Family of MapReduce and Large Scale Data Processing Systems
In the last two decades, the continuous increase of computational power has
produced an overwhelming flow of data which has called for a paradigm shift in
the computing architecture and large scale data processing mechanisms.
MapReduce is a simple and powerful programming model that enables easy
development of scalable parallel applications to process vast amounts of data
on large clusters of commodity machines. It isolates the application from the
details of running a distributed program such as issues on data distribution,
scheduling and fault tolerance. However, the original implementation of the
MapReduce framework had some limitations that have been tackled by many
research efforts in several followup works after its introduction. This article
provides a comprehensive survey for a family of approaches and mechanisms of
large scale data processing mechanisms that have been implemented based on the
original idea of the MapReduce framework and are currently gaining a lot of
momentum in both research and industrial communities. We also cover a set of
introduced systems that have been implemented to provide declarative
programming interfaces on top of the MapReduce framework. In addition, we
review several large scale data processing systems that resemble some of the
ideas of the MapReduce framework for different purposes and application
scenarios. Finally, we discuss some of the future research directions for
implementing the next generation of MapReduce-like solutions.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1105.4252 by other author
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