Babelfish: Efficient Execution of Polyglot Queries
Summary: Babelfish unifies relational queries and multilingual UDFs in an IR, enabling cross-language fusion and specialization without cross-runtime materialization. It matches handwritten-code performance and outperforms prior systems by up to 10×. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Philipp Marian Grulich (Technical University of Berlin)
- 2. Steffen Zeuch (German National Research Center for Information Technology; Technical University of Berlin)
- 3. Volker Markl (German National Research Center for Information Technology; Technical University of Berlin)
BibTeX Citation
@article{grulich_vldb22,
title = {{Babelfish: Efficient Execution of Polyglot Queries}},
author = {Grulich, Philipp Marian and Zeuch, Steffen and Markl, Volker},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '22},
volume = {15},
number = {2},
pages = {196--210},
doi = {10.14778/3489496.3489501},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3489496.3489501},
year = {2022}
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