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The goal of the Impliance project is to
build a
next-generation information management system that stores all
structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data, is easy to manage,
and analyzes data in a scalable way. The long-term vision of Impliance has been
articulated in our 2007 CIDR paper (2007CIDRvisionPaper).
In 2007, the goal of Impliance is to build a warehouse infrastructure
that stores large amounts of data with text, extracts annotations
through large-scale text analytics, and exploits annotations for
semantic search and BI analysis. This infrastructure will be scalable,
fault-tolerant, and easy to manage.
Technical Goals
- Build
a scalable data store and computing infrastructure that scales down to
a 1 TB desktop and scales up to thousands of nodes and many thousands
of TBs of data.
- Build
a flexible data store that can efficiently store, retrieve, and index
data consisting of many different types of data, ranging from small
relational tuples to short e-mail messages, huge video files, and
annotations on all those data types.
- Build
a usable computing infrastructure that allows computations to be
composed of existing operations, allows users with special needs to
write their own custom operators, and supports both batch analysis over
millions of documents and thousands of queries per second over indexed
documents.
- Build a management infrastructure that allows the
device to be self managing.
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- Project Leads
- Guy Lohman
- Eugene Shekita
- Team Members
- Kevin Beyer
- Vuk Ercegovac
- Ning Li
- Mauricio Mediano
- Hamid Pirahesh
- Jun Rao
- Fred Reiss
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- To the maximum extent possible, we are incorporating open source components into Impliance,
when they meet our objectives. For example, we are building Impliance on top of the Hadoop open
source distributed file
system, and are very likely to use Lucene for indexing.
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- Bishwaranjan Bhattacharjee, Vuk Ercegovac, Joseph
Glider, Richard
Golding, Guy Lohman, Volker Markl, Hamid Pirahesh, Jun Rao, Robert
Rees, Frederick Reiss, Eugene Shekita, Garret Swart, "Impliance: A Next
Generation Information Management Appliance", Procs. of the Third
Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR 2007),
Monterey, CA, Jan. 2007, pp. 351-360. 2007CIDRvisionPaper
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