- Interlandi, Matteo;
- Tetali, Sai Deep;
- Gulzar, Muhammad Ali;
- Noor, Joseph;
- Condie, Tyson;
- Kim, Miryung;
- Millstein, Todd
- Editor(s): Aguilera, Marcos K;
- Cooper, Brian;
- Diao, Yanlei
Modern Data-Intensive Scalable Computing (DISC) systems are designed to process data through batch jobs that execute programs (e.g., queries) compiled from a high-level language. These programs are often developed interactively by posing ad-hoc queries over the base data until a desired result is generated. We observe that there can be significant overlap in the structure of these queries used to derive the final program. Yet, each successive execution of a slightly modified query is performed anew, which can significantly increase the development cycle. Vega is an Apache Spark framework that we have implemented for optimizing a series of similar Spark programs, likely originating from a development or exploratory data analysis session. Spark developers (e.g., data scientists) can leverage Vega to significantly reduce the amount of time it takes to re-execute a modified Spark program, reducing the overall time to market for their Big Data applications.