Publications by Christopher Ming-Yee Iu

JReq: Database Queries in Imperative Languages

Willy Zwaenepoel, Christopher Ming-Yee Iu, Emmanuel Cecchet

Instead of writing SQL queries directly, programmers often prefer writing all their code in a general purpose programming language like Java and having their programs be automatically rewritten to use database queries. Traditional tools such as object-rela ...

Springer Verlag2010

HadoopToSQL: a MapReduce Query Optimizer

Willy Zwaenepoel, Christopher Ming-Yee Iu

Map Reduce is a cost-effective way to achieve scalable performance for many log-processing workloads. These workloads typically process their entire dataset. Map Reduce can be inefficient, however, when handling business-oriented workloads, especially when ...

ACM2010

Database Queries in Java

Christopher Ming-Yee Iu

In conventional programming languages like Java, the interface for accessing databases is often inelegant. Typically, an entire separate database query language must be embedded inside a conventional programming language for programmers to access the full ...

EPFL2010

Queryll: Java Database Queries through Bytecode Rewriting

Willy Zwaenepoel, Christopher Ming-Yee Iu

When interfacing Java with other systems such as databases, programmers must often program in special interface languages like SQL. Code written in these languages often needs to be embedded in strings where they cannot be error-checked at compile-time, or ...

2006