SQLShare: DB-as-a-Service

SQLShare is a database service aimed at removing the obstacles to using relational databases: installation, configuration, schema design, tuning, data ingest, and even application design. You simply upload your data and immediately start querying it. One of the main lessons from SQLShare is that a relatively minor set of changes to how existing database technology is packaged and delivered is sufficient to convince science and data science users to adopt SQL in their day-to-day data manipulation and analysis tasks, potentially displacing script-and-file based approaches.

We analyzed the handwritten SQL queries and found that the features of SQLShare were instrumental in attracting new kinds of ad hoc queries and that the SQLShare workload is demonstrably more diverse than a comparable public workload in science, and that users are writing very complex queries by hand. The query log can be downloaded from SQLShare data release page.

People

Current

  • Shrainik Jain

Past

  • Daniel Halperin
  • Sagar Chitnis
  • Garret Cole

Papers

  1. SQLShare: Results from a Multi-Year SQL-as-a-Service Experiment
    Shrainik Jain, Dominik Moritz, Bill Howe, Ed Lazowska.
    SIGMOD 2016 
    @inproceedings{jain2016sqlshare,
  author = {Jain, Shrainik and Moritz, Dominik and Howe, Bill and Lazowska, Ed},
  title = {SQLShare: Results from a Multi-Year SQL-as-a-Service Experiment},
  booktitle = {SIGMOD},
  year = {2016}
}
  1. Towards automated prediction of relationships among scientific datasets
    Abdussalam Alawini, David Maier, Kristin Tufte, Bill Howe, Rashmi Nandikur.
    Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, SSDBM ’15, La Jolla, CA, USA, June 29 - July 1, 2015 2015 
    @inproceedings{alawini2015relationships,
  author = {Alawini, Abdussalam and Maier, David and Tufte, Kristin and Howe, Bill and Nandikur, Rashmi},
  title = {Towards automated prediction of relationships among scientific datasets},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Scientific and
                 Statistical Database Management, {SSDBM} '15, La Jolla, CA, USA, June
                 29 - July 1, 2015},
  pages = {35:1--35:5},
  year = {2015},
  crossref = {DBLP:conf/ssdbm/2015},
  url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2791347.2791358},
  doi = {10.1145/2791347.2791358},
  timestamp = {Tue, 08 Sep 2015 16:21:54 +0200},
  biburl = {http://dblp.uni-trier.de/rec/bib/conf/ssdbm/AlawiniMTHN15},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, http://dblp.org}
}
  2. Helping scientists reconnect their datasets
    Abdussalam Alawini, David Maier, Kristin Tufte, Bill Howe.
    Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management 2014 
    @inproceedings{alawini2014helping,
  title = {Helping scientists reconnect their datasets},
  author = {Alawini, Abdussalam and Maier, David and Tufte, Kristin and Howe, Bill},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management},
  pages = {29},
  year = {2014},
  organization = {ACM}
}
    1. SQLShare: Scientific workflow via relational view sharing
      Bill Howe, Francois Ribalet, Daniel Halperin, Sagar Chitnis, E Virginia Armbrust.
      Computing in Science and Engineering, Special Issue on Science Data Management 15(2) 2013 
      @article{howe2013sqlshare,
  title = {SQLShare: Scientific workflow via relational view sharing},
  author = {Howe, Bill and Ribalet, Francois and Halperin, Daniel and Chitnis, Sagar and Armbrust, E Virginia},
  journal = {Computing in Science and Engineering, Special Issue on Science Data Management},
  volume = {15},
  number = {2},
  year = {2013}
}
    1. Collaborative science workflows in SQL
      Bill Howe, Daniel Halperin, Francois Ribalet, Sagar Chitnis, E Virginia Armbrust.
      Computing in Science and Engineering 15(3) 2013 
      @article{howe2013collaborative,
  title = {Collaborative science workflows in SQL},
  author = {Howe, Bill and Halperin, Daniel and Ribalet, Francois and Chitnis, Sagar and Armbrust, E Virginia},
  journal = {Computing in Science and Engineering},
  volume = {15},
  number = {3},
  pages = {22--31},
  year = {2013},
  publisher = {AIP Publishing}
}
    1. Automatic example queries for ad hoc databases
      Bill Howe, Garrett Cole, Nodira Khoussainova, Leilani Battle.
      Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, SIGMOD 2011, Athens, Greece, June 12-16, 2011 2011 
      @inproceedings{howe2011example,
  author = {Howe, Bill and Cole, Garrett and Khoussainova, Nodira and Battle, Leilani},
  title = {Automatic example queries for ad hoc databases},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management
                 of Data, {SIGMOD} 2011, Athens, Greece, June 12-16, 2011},
  pages = {1319--1322},
  year = {2011},
  crossref = {DBLP:conf/sigmod/2011},
  url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1989323.1989487},
  doi = {10.1145/1989323.1989487},
  timestamp = {Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:14:38 +0200},
  biburl = {http://dblp.uni-trier.de/rec/bib/conf/sigmod/HoweCKB11},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, http://dblp.org}
}
    1. Database-as-a-service for long-tail science
      Bill Howe, Garret Cole, Emad Souroush, Paraschos Koutris, Alicia Key, Nodira Khoussainova, Leilani Battle.
      Scientific and Statistical Database Management 2011 
      @inproceedings{howe2011database,
  title = {Database-as-a-service for long-tail science},
  author = {Howe, Bill and Cole, Garret and Souroush, Emad and Koutris, Paraschos and Key, Alicia and Khoussainova, Nodira and Battle, Leilani},
  booktitle = {Scientific and Statistical Database Management},
  pages = {480--489},
  year = {2011},
  organization = {Springer}
}
    1. SQL is dead; long live SQL: Lightweight query services for ad hoc research data
      Bill Howe, Garret Cole.
      4th Microsoft eScience Workshop 2010 
      @inproceedings{howe2010sql,
  title = {SQL is dead; long live SQL: Lightweight query services for ad hoc research data},
  author = {Howe, Bill and Cole, Garret},
  booktitle = {4th Microsoft eScience Workshop},
  year = {2010}
}


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