CS 5/579, Winter 2020

January 20/22 / Week 3

MLK Day and Analytical Tools

Monday

No class, in honor of MLK Day!

Wednesday: Analytical tools, file formats

Readings

• Gates, Alan F., Olga Natkovich, Shubham Chopra, Pradeep Kamath, Shravan M. Narayanamurthy, Christopher Olston, Benjamin Reed, Santhosh Srinivasan, and Utkarsh Srivastava. “Building a high-level dataflow system on top of Map-Reduce: the Pig experience.” Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment 2, no. 2 (2009): 1414-1425.
• Melnik, Sergey, Andrey Gubarev, Jing Jing Long, Geoffrey Romer, Shiva Shivakumar, Matt Tolton, and Theo Vassilakis. “Dremel: interactive analysis of web-scale datasets.” Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment 3, no. 1-2 (2010): 330-339.
• Pike, Rob, Sean Dorward, Robert Griesemer, and Sean Quinlan. “Interpreting the data: Parallel analysis with Sawzall.”Scientific Programming 13, no. 4 (2005): 277-298.
• Kazunori Sato. “An Inside Look at Google BigQuery”, Google Whitepaper