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Type Conference or Workshop Paper
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Published in Proceedings Yes
Title A Relational Matrix Algebra and its Implementation in a Column Store
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Oksana Dolmatova
  • Nikolaus Augsten
  • Michael Hanspeter Böhlen
Presentation Type paper
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Page Range 2573 - 2587
Event Title ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data
Event Type conference
Event Location Portland, OR, USA
Event Start Date June 14 - 2020
Event End Date June 19 - 2020
Publisher ACM
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.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1145/3318464.3389747
Other Identification Number merlin-id:20727
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