Publikation
Cutty: Aggregate Sharing for User-defined Windows
Paris Carbone; Jonas Traub; Asterios Katsifodimos; Seif Haridi; Volker Markl
In: Proceedings of the 25th ACM International on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM-2016), October 24-28, Indianapolis, IN, USA, ACM, New York, NY, 2016.
Zusammenfassung
Aggregation queries on data streams are evaluated over evolving and often overlapping logical views called windows. While the aggregation of periodic windows were extensively studied in the past through the use of aggregate sharing techniques such as Panes and Pairs, little to no work has been put in optimizing the aggregation of very common, non-periodic windows. Typical examples of non-periodic windows are punctuations and sessions which can imple- ment complex business logic and are often expressed as user- defined operators on platforms such as Google Dataflow or Apache Storm. The aggregation of such non-periodic or user-defined windows either falls back to expensive, best- effort aggregate sharing methods, or is not optimized at all.
In this paper we present a technique to perform efficient aggregate sharing for data stream windows, which are de- clared as user-defined functions (UDFs) and can contain arbitrary business logic. To this end, we first introduce the concept of User-Defined Windows (UDWs), a simple, UDF-based programming abstraction that allows users to programmatically define custom windows. We then define semantics for UDWs, based on which we design Cutty, a low- cost aggregate sharing technique. Cutty improves and out- performs the state of the art for aggregate sharing on single and multiple queries. Moreover, it enables aggregate sharing for a broad class of non-periodic UDWs. We implemented our techniques on Apache Flink, an open source stream pro- cessing system, and performed experiments demonstrating orders of magnitude of reduction in aggregation costs com- pared to the state of the art.