[talks] date correction. March 3rd, Colloquium Speaker-Rachit Agarwal, 12:30PM

[Mitra D. Kelly]

Colloquium Speaker

Rachit Agarwal, AMPLab at UC Berkeley

March 3rd, 12:30

Computer Science 105

 

Title: Building Systems that Query on Compressed Data

 

Abstract: Web services today want to support sophisticated queries, with
stringent interactivity constraints. Many recent studies have argued that
in-memory query execution is one of the keys to achieving query
interactivity. However, as web services scale to larger data sizes,
executing queries in memory becomes increasingly challenging. As a result,
existing systems fall short of supporting sophisticated interactive queries
at scale.

 

In this talk, we present Succinct, a distributed data store that supports
functionality comparable to state-of-the-art NoSQL stores and yet, enables
query interactivity for an order of magnitude larger data sizes than what is
possible today (or, alternatively, up to two orders of magnitude faster
queries at scale). Succinct accomplishes this by executing a wide range of
queries -- e.g., search, range, and even regular expressions -- directly on
compressed data. Succinct achieves scale by storing the input data in a
compressed form, and interactivity by avoiding data scans and data
decompression. We will also discuss how Succinct's approach of executing
queries on compressed data enables a new "lens" for exploring several
classical systems problems -- e.g., failure recovery, load spikes during
transient failures, skewed workloads, etc. --, and leads to previously
unachievable operating points in the system design space. Succinct is
open-sourced, and is already being adopted in production clusters of several
large-scale web services.


Bio: Rachit Agarwal is a postdoc in AMPLab at UC Berkeley, where he leads
the Succinct project along with Ion Stoica. His research focuses on the core
problems in distributed data-intensive systems, with the goal of building
systems that not only aim for practical impact but also have a strong
theoretical foundation. He completed his PhD at UIUC, working with Brighten
Godfrey and Matthew Caesar, and his undergraduate from IIT Kanpur. During
his PhD, he received 2012 UIUC Rambus research award and 2010 Wang-Chung
research award for outstanding performance in computer engineering research,
and was listed in 2010 UIUC List of Teachers ranked as excellent.

 

 

 

Mitra Kelly

Academic Secretary

Princeton University

Computer Science Dept

35 Olden Street

Princeton NJ 08540

mkelly at cs.princeton.edu <mailto:mkelly at cs.princeton.edu> 

609-258-4562

 

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