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| Type | Working Paper |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | A Relational Matrix Algebra and its Implementation in a Column Store |
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| Institution | Cornell University |
| Series Name | ArXiv.org |
| Number | 05517 |
| ISSN | 2331-8422 |
| Date | 2020 |
| Abstract Text | Analytical queries often require a mixture of relational and linear algebra operations applied to the same data. This poses a challenge to analytic systems that must bridge the gap between relations and matrices. Previous work has mainly strived to fix the problem at the implementation level. This paper proposes a principled solution at the logical level. We introduce the relational matrix algebra (RMA), which seamlessly integrates linear algebra operations into the relational model and eliminates the dichotomy between matrices and relations. RMA is closed: All our relational matrix operations are performed on relations and result in relations; no additional data structure is required. Our implementation in MonetDB shows the feasibility of our approach, and empirical evaluations suggest that in-database analytics performs well for mixed workloads. |
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| Official URL | https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.05517.pdf |
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| Other Identification Number | merlin-id:20725 |
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