Data Science Lecture Series: Big Data Management with the Myria Cloud Service

Many tools exist today for managing increasingly large collections of data. An important challenge, however, is that Big Data management tools must be both fast and easy-to-use. In this talk, we present the Myria system and service that we have developers in the database group at the University of Washington (in collaboration with the eScience Institute). The service is designed to meet the needs of modern data scientists, focusing on performance and productivity. We present an overview of the design of the tool, its key features, and a concrete analysis from the astronomy domain that uses the tool. We also present in more detail one innovative feature of Myria: its Personalized Service Level Agreements.

Speaker: Magdalena Balazinska, Univ. of Washington