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Pushing data-intensive analytics down to database engines is the key to high-performance and secured execution; however, the existent SQL framework is unable to express general graph-based dataflow processes, and unable to orchestrate multiple dataflow processes with inter-operation data dependencies.
In this work we extend SQL to Functional Form-SQL (FF-SQL) based on a calculus of queries, to declaratively express complex dataflow graphs. A FF-SQL query is constructed from conventional queries using Function Forms (FFs). While a conventional SQL query represents a dataflow tree, a FF-SQL query represents a more general dataflow graph. Further, with FF-SQL, a group of SQL dataflow processes with data dependency among their operations can be specified as a single, integrated FF-SQL definition, and executed cooperatively inside the database engine without repeated data retrieval, duplicated computation and unnecessary data copying. A novel extension to the PostgreSQL query engine is made to support FF-SQL dataflow processes.
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Chen, Q., Hsu, M. (2009). Cooperating SQL Dataflow Processes for In-DB Analytics. In: Meersman, R., Dillon, T., Herrero, P. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2009. OTM 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5870. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05148-7_28
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