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Live programming support in the LogicBlox system: a MetaLogiQL approach
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The emerging category of self-service enterprise applications motivates support for "live programming" in the database, where the user's iterative data exploration triggers changes to installed application code and its output in real time.
This paper discusses the technical challenges in supporting live programming in the database and presents the solution implemented in the LogicBlox commercial system. The workhorse architectural component is a "meta-engine" that incrementally maintains metadata representing application code, guides its compilation into an internal representation in the database kernel, and orchestrates maintenance of materialized views based on those changes. Our approach mirrors LogicBlox's declarative programming model and describes the maintenance of application code using declarative meta-rules; the meta-engine is essentially a "bootstrap" version of the database engine proper.
Beyond live programming, the meta-engine turns out effective for a range of static analysis and optimization tasks. Outside of the database context, we speculate that our design may even provide a novel means of building incremental compilers for general-purpose programming languages.
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- Published
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- Peer reviewed
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- 10.14778/2824032.2824075
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- Proceedings of the Vldb Endowment International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
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- Proceedings of Very Large Data Bases More from this journal
- Volume:
- 8
- Issue:
- 12
- Pages:
- 1782-1793
- Publication date:
- 2015-08-01
- Event title:
- 41st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
- Event location:
- Kohala Coast, Hawaii
- Event start date:
- 2015-08-31
- Event end date:
- 2015-09-04
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2150-8097
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English
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pubs:609199
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pubs:609199
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609199
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- VLDB Endowment
- Copyright date:
- 2015
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- This work is licensed under the Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/. Obtain permission prior to any use beyond those covered by the license. Contact copyright holder by emailing [email protected].
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- Articles from this volume were invited to present their results at the 41st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, August 31st - September 4th 2015, Kohala Coast, Hawaii.
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