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Using Cloud Functions as Accelerator for Elastic Data Analytics

Anastasia Ailamaki, Haoqiong Bian, Tiannan Sha

Cloud function (CF) services, such as AWS Lambda, have been applied as the new computing infrastructure in implementing analytical query engines. For bursty and sparse workloads, CF-based query engine is more elastic than the traditional query engines runn ...

ACM2023

Pixels: An Efficient Column Store for Cloud Data Lakes

Anastasia Ailamaki, Haoqiong Bian

To benefit from the cloud’s higher elasticity and price-efficiency, most modern data-lake engines support S3-like cloud object storage (COS) services as their optional or preferred underlying storage. Meanwhile, the widespread column stores, such as Parque ...

IEEE2022

Columnar Storage Optimization and Caching for Data Lakes

Haoqiong Bian

As a unified data repository, data lake plays a vital role in enterprise data management and analysis. It composes the raw files into tables that are processed in-situ by various computation engines and applications. Therefore, the read performance of the ...

2022

Storage Management in Smart Data Lake

Anastasia Ailamaki, Haoqiong Bian, Bikash Chandra, Ioannis Mytilinis

Data lakes are complex ecosystems where heterogeneity prevails. Raw data of diverse formats are stored and processed, while long and expensive ETL processes are avoided. Apart from data heterogeneity, data lakes also entail hardware heterogeneity. Typical ...

2021

Interactive Visual Exploration of Spatio-Temporal Urban Data Sets using Urbane

Anastasia Ailamaki, Eleni Tzirita Zacharatou, Haoqiong Bian

The recent explosion in the number and size of spatio-temporal data sets from urban environments and social sensors creates new opportunities for data-driven approaches to understand and improve cities. Visual analytics systems like Urbane aim to empower d ...

2018