The huge demand for computation in artificial intelligence (AI) is driving unparalleled investments in hardware and software systems for AI. This leads to an explosion in the number of specialized hardware devices, which are now offered by major cloud vendors. By hiding the low-level complexity through a tensor-based interface, tensor computation runtimes (TCRs) such as PyTorch allow data scientists to efficiently exploit the exciting capabilities offered by the new hardware. In this paper, we explore how database management systems can ride the wave of innovation happening in the AI space. We design, build, and evaluate Tensor Query Processor (TQP): TQP transforms SQL queries into tensor programs and executes them on TCRs. TQP is able to run the full TPC-H benchmark by implementing novel algorithms for relational operators on the tensor routines. At the same time, TQP can support various hardware while only requiring a fraction of the usual development effort. Experiments show that TQP can improve query execution time by up to 10X over specialized CPU- and GPU-only systems. Finally, TQP can accelerate queries mixing ML predictions and SQL end-to-end, and deliver up to 9X speedup over CPU baselines.
Microsoft Azure is dedicated to guarantee high quality of service to its customers, in particular, during periods of high customer activity, while controlling cost. We employ a Data Science (DS) driven solution to predict user load and leverage these predictions to optimize resource allocation. To this end, we built the Seagull infrastructure that processes per-server telemetry, validates the data, trains and deploys ML models. The models are used to predict customer load per server (24h into the future), and optimize service operations. Seagull continually re-evaluates accuracy of predictions, fallback to previously known good models and triggers alerts as appropriate. We deployed this infrastructure in production for PostgreSQL and MySQL servers across all Azure regions, and applied it to the problem of scheduling server backups during low-load time. This minimizes interference with user-induced load and improves customer experience.
Prediction queries are widely used across industries to perform advanced analytics and draw insights from data. They include a data processing part (e.g., for joining, filtering, cleaning, featurizing the datasets) and a machine learning (ML) part invoking one or more trained models to perform predictions. These parts have so far been optimized in isolation, leaving significant opportunities for optimization unexplored.We present Raven, a production-ready system for optimizing prediction queries. Raven follows the enterprise architectural trend of collocating data and ML runtimes. It relies on a unified intermediate representation that captures both data and ML operators in a single graph structure to unlock two families of optimizations. First, it employs logical optimizations that pass information between the data part (and the properties of the underlying data) and the ML part to optimize each other. Second, it introduces logical-tophysical transformations that allow operators to be executed on different runtimes (relational, ML, and DNN) and hardware (CPU, GPU). Novel data-driven optimizations determine the runtime to be used for each part of the query to achieve optimal performance. Our evaluation shows that Raven improves performance of prediction queries on Apache Spark and SQL Server by up to 13.1× and 330×, respectively. For complex models where GPU acceleration is beneficial, Raven provides up to 8× speedup compared to state-of-the-art systems.
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