Craig Chasseur
Developer on F1 Query engine and database systems researcher. Also a founding contributor for Quickstep (Apache Incubator project). Formerly of Pivotal, Quickstep LLC, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Database Systems Group.
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F1 Query: Declarative Querying at Scale
Bart Samwel
Ahmed Aly
Thanh Do
Somayeh Sardashti
Jiexing Li
Jiacheng Yang
Chanjun Yang
Jason Govig
Andrew Harn
Zhan Yuan
Daniel Tenedorio
Colin Zheng
Allen Yan
Orri Erling
Yang Xia
Qiang Zeng
Divy Agrawal
Jun Xu
Mohan Yang
Andrey Gubichev
Felix Weigel
Yiqun Wei
Ben Handy
Anurag Biyani
Ian Rae
Amr El-Helw
Shivakumar Venkataraman
David G Wilhite
PVLDB (2018), pp. 1835-1848
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F1 Query is a stand-alone, federated query processing platform that executes SQL queries against data stored in different file-based formats as well as different storage systems (e.g., BigTable, Spanner, Google Spreadsheets, etc.). F1 Query eliminates the need to maintain the traditional distinction between different types of data processing workloads by simultaneously supporting: (i) OLTP-style point queries that affect only a few records; (ii) low-latency OLAP querying of large amounts of data; and (iii) large ETL pipelines transforming data from multiple data sources into formats more suitable for analysis and reporting. F1 Query has also significantly reduced the need for developing hard-coded data processing pipelines by enabling declarative queries integrated with custom business logic. F1 Query satisfies key requirements that are highly desirable within Google: (i) it provides a unified view over data that is fragmented and distributed over multiple data sources; (ii) it leverages datacenter resources for performant query processing with high throughput and low latency; (iii) it provides high scalability for large data sizes by increasing computational parallelism; and (iv) it is extensible and uses innovative approaches to integrate complex business logic in declarative query processing. This paper presents the end-to-end design of F1 Query. Evolved out of F1, the distributed database that Google uses to manage its advertising data, F1 Query has been in production for multiple years at Google and serves the querying needs of a large number of users and systems.
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