Today I met with UW CSE undergrad York Wei and Brandon Myers for demos and code review of York’s summer Project. York and Brandon have adapted our Myria Web frontend to extend the current support for Myria with the ability to issue queries to two new backends:

1. a backend that compiles and executes Raco-generated C code for fast, in-memory queries on a single machine, and
2. a backend that compiles and executes Raco-generated code on the Grappa runtime, which uses the partitioned, global address space model to execute blazingly-fast queries in memory on a large, distributed cluster.

Throughout the course of the meeting we discussed general issues and refactoring for Myria-Web so that it will truly be backend-agnostic and we can deploy this awesome, multi-system functionality on the web. I look forward to using this software for Flink support!

The other exciting news is that Andrew Whitaker finished the Raco support for user-defined aggregates and functions. We now have the support that Sandra Anderson needs to issue fast queries over citation graphs!