Emma in Action: Declarative Dataflows for Scalable Data Analysis
Summary: Emma in Action showcases a Scala-embedded dataflow language for declarative, scalable analysis. Quoting entire analyses and separating sequential control from parallel dataflow enables context-aware optimization and offloading to Spark or Flink. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Alexander Alexandrov (Technical University of Berlin)
- 2. Andreas Salzmann (Technical University of Berlin)
- 3. Georgi Krastev (Technical University of Berlin)
- 4. Asterios Katsifodimos (Technical University of Berlin)
- 5. Volker Markl (Technical University of Berlin)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{alexandrov_sigmod16,
title = {{Emma in Action: Declarative Dataflows for Scalable Data Analysis}},
author = {Alexandrov, Alexander and Salzmann, Andreas and Krastev, Georgi and Katsifodimos, Asterios and Markl, Volker},
series = {{SIGMOD} '16},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/2882903.2889396},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2882903.2889396},
year = {2016}
}
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| 2,239 | An Intermediate Representation for Optimizing Machine Learning Pipelines | 2019 | VLDB | 8.8875753e-05 |
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| 292 | LINQ: Reconciling Objects, Relations and XML in the .NET Framework | 2006 | SIGMOD | 0.00022259549 |
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