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Distributed Processing of Generalized Graph-Pattern Queries in SPARQL 1.1
We propose an efficient and scalable architecture for processing generalized
graph-pattern queries as they are specified by the current W3C recommendation
of the SPARQL 1.1 "Query Language" component. Specifically, the class of
queries we consider consists of sets of SPARQL triple patterns with labeled
property paths. From a relational perspective, this class resolves to
conjunctive queries of relational joins with additional graph-reachability
predicates. For the scalable, i.e., distributed, processing of this kind of
queries over very large RDF collections, we develop a suitable partitioning and
indexing scheme, which allows us to shard the RDF triples over an entire
cluster of compute nodes and to process an incoming SPARQL query over all of
the relevant graph partitions (and thus compute nodes) in parallel. Unlike most
prior works in this field, we specifically aim at the unified optimization and
distributed processing of queries consisting of both relational joins and
graph-reachability predicates. All communication among the compute nodes is
established via a proprietary, asynchronous communication protocol based on the
Message Passing Interface
06472 Abstracts Collection - XQuery Implementation Paradigms
From 19.11.2006 to 22.11.2006, the Dagstuhl Seminar 06472 ``XQuery Implementation Paradigms'' was held in the International Conference and Research Center (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl. During the seminar, several participants presented their current research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed. Abstracts of the presentations given during the seminar as well as abstracts of seminar results and ideas are put together in this paper. The first section describes the seminar topics and goals in general. Links to extended abstracts or full papers are provided, if available
One size does not fit all : accelerating OLAP workloads with GPUs
GPU has been considered as one of the next-generation platforms for real-time query processing databases. In this paper we empirically demonstrate that the representative GPU databases [e.g., OmniSci (Open Source Analytical Database & SQL Engine,, 2019)] may be slower than the representative in-memory databases [e.g., Hyper (Neumann and Leis, IEEE Data Eng Bull 37(1):3-11, 2014)] with typical OLAP workloads (with Star Schema Benchmark) even if the actual dataset size of each query can completely fit in GPU memory. Therefore, we argue that GPU database designs should not be one-size-fits-all; a general-purpose GPU database engine may not be well-suited for OLAP workloads without careful designed GPU memory assignment and GPU computing locality. In order to achieve better performance for GPU OLAP, we need to re-organize OLAP operators and re-optimize OLAP model. In particular, we propose the 3-layer OLAP model to match the heterogeneous computing platforms. The core idea is to maximize data and computing locality to specified hardware. We design the vector grouping algorithm for data-intensive workload which is proved to be assigned to CPU platform adaptive. We design the TOP-DOWN query plan tree strategy to guarantee the optimal operation in final stage and pushing the respective optimizations to the lower layers to make global optimization gains. With this strategy, we design the 3-stage processing model (OLAP acceleration engine) for hybrid CPU-GPU platform, where the computing-intensive star-join stage is accelerated by GPU, and the data-intensive grouping & aggregation stage is accelerated by CPU. This design maximizes the locality of different workloads and simplifies the GPU acceleration implementation. Our experimental results show that with vector grouping and GPU accelerated star-join implementation, the OLAP acceleration engine runs 1.9x, 3.05x and 3.92x faster than Hyper, OmniSci GPU and OmniSci CPU in SSB evaluation with dataset of SF = 100.Peer reviewe
XWeB: the XML Warehouse Benchmark
With the emergence of XML as a standard for representing business data, new
decision support applications are being developed. These XML data warehouses
aim at supporting On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) operations that
manipulate irregular XML data. To ensure feasibility of these new tools,
important performance issues must be addressed. Performance is customarily
assessed with the help of benchmarks. However, decision support benchmarks do
not currently support XML features. In this paper, we introduce the XML
Warehouse Benchmark (XWeB), which aims at filling this gap. XWeB derives from
the relational decision support benchmark TPC-H. It is mainly composed of a
test data warehouse that is based on a unified reference model for XML
warehouses and that features XML-specific structures, and its associate XQuery
decision support workload. XWeB's usage is illustrated by experiments on
several XML database management systems
Accelerating Foreign-Key Joins using Asymmetric Memory Channels
Indexed Foreign-Key Joins expose a very asymmetric access
pattern: the Foreign-Key Index is sequentially scanned
whilst the Primary-Key table is target of many quasi-random
lookups which is the dominant cost factor. To reduce the
costs of the random lookups the fact-table can be (re-) partitioned
at runtime to increase access locality on the dimension
table, and thus limit the random memory access to
inside the CPU's cache. However, this is very hard to optimize
and the performance impact on recent architectures is
limited because the partitioning costs consume most of the
achievable join improvement.
GPGPUs on the other hand have an architecture that is
well suited for this operation: a relatively slow connection to
the large system memory and a very fast connection to the
smaller internal device memory. We show how to accelerate
Foreign-Key Joins by executing the random table lookups on
the GPU's VRAM while sequentially streaming the Foreign-
Key-Index through the PCI-E Bus. We also experimentally
study the memory access costs on GPU and CPU to provide
estimations of the benefit of this technique
Information Exchange Between Humanitarian Organizations: Using the XML Schema IDML
This article explains challenges that arise when humanitarian organizations want to coordinate their development activities by means of distributed information systems. It focuses on information exchange based on the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) and relational databases. This piece discusses how to save hierarchical XML documents in relational databases. It introduces conversion rules to derive a relational database model from XML schemas. The rules are applied for the design of a database for the management of humanitarian development projects. The underlying schema for the database is the International Development Markup Language (IDML). This exchange standard for development-related activities is described. The article gives details on how a traditional relational database can import or export XML documents, i.e. how it can be XML-enabled
A Survey on the Evolution of Stream Processing Systems
Stream processing has been an active research field for more than 20 years,
but it is now witnessing its prime time due to recent successful efforts by the
research community and numerous worldwide open-source communities. This survey
provides a comprehensive overview of fundamental aspects of stream processing
systems and their evolution in the functional areas of out-of-order data
management, state management, fault tolerance, high availability, load
management, elasticity, and reconfiguration. We review noteworthy past research
findings, outline the similarities and differences between early ('00-'10) and
modern ('11-'18) streaming systems, and discuss recent trends and open
problems.Comment: 34 pages, 15 figures, 5 table
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