Over the past several years, Cloud Data Services have been gaining
increased popularity both in industry and in the research
community. While several successful services are now commercially
available, many questions remain open as to how we should be building
such services. There are at least two major directions for such
services. First, Database-as-a-Service (DaaS) functionality, which is
being offered commercially, provides the ability to leverage data
management functionality in the cloud. Second, there is also
increasing interest in exploring various novel architectures for
large-scale distributed data analytics platform (in addition to
traditional SQL based infrastructures) in private as well as public
clouds. Effective cloud data services must be able to support low
manageability cost, fault tolerance, pay-as-you-go pricing,
geo-replication, performance, scale, and other features that can be
challenging to achieve at the same time.
The goal of this summer institute is to identify and discuss the
technical challenges that the above systems need to address. We are
bringing together researchers and practitioners from diverse but
relevant areas such as database systems, distributed systems and
machine learning to discuss the state-of-the-art and identify
directions for future research and collaboration. Some examples of
topics we will explore include:
- Applications: What are the unique requirements of
applications on cloud data services? Do cloud data services enable new
applications that are not possible or easy to build today?
- Autonomics: What SLAs are meaningful for cloud data
services? How can these SLAs be achieved? What strategies for
throttling, resource allocation, admission control and diagnostics are
required?
- Querying, Storage, and Transactional models: What are the
trade-offs in the choices of the querying paradigms? What consistency
models are important to support? How should we build the next
generation data management systems in the cloud?
Organizers: Magdalena Balazinska (UW CSE), Surajit Chaudhuri (MSR), and Vivek Narasayya (MSR)
Descriptions of past summer institutes may be viewed at:
www.cs.washington.edu/mssi/.
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