Large-scale, user-facing applications are increasingly moving from relational databases to distributed key-value stores for high request rate, low latency workloads. Often this move is motivated not only by key/value stores' ability to scale simply by adding more hardware, but also by the easy to understand predictable performance they provide for all operations. For complex queries this approach often requires onerous explicit index management and imperative data lookup by the developer. We propose PIQL, a Performance Insightful Query Language that allows developers to express many of the queries found on these websites, while still providing strict performance guarantees.
Title
PIQL: A Performance Insightful Query Language For Interactive Applications
Published
2010-01-25
Full Collection Name
Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences Technical Reports
Other Identifiers
EECS-2010-8
Type
Text
Extent
8 p
Archive
The Engineering Library
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