Transformation of Continuous Aggregation Join Queries over Data Streams

We address continuously processing an aggregation join query over data streams. Queries of this type involve both join and aggregation operations, with windows specified on join input streams. To our knowledge, the existing researches address join query optimization and aggregation query optimization as separate problems. Our observation, however, is that by putting them within the same scope of query optimization we can generate more efficient query execution plans. This is through more versatile query transformations, the key idea of which is to perform aggregation before join so join execution time may be reduced. This idea itself is not new (already proposed in the database area), but developing the query transformation rules faces a completely new set of challenges. In this paper, we first propose a query processing model of an aggregation join query with two key stream operators: (1) aggregation set update, which produces an aggregation set of tuples (one tuple per group) and updates it incrementally as new tuples arrive, and (2) aggregation set join, i.e., join between a stream and an aggregation set of tuples. Then, we introduce the concrete query transformation rules specialized to work with streams. The rules are far more compact and yet more general than the rules proposed in the database area. Then, we present a query processing algorithm generic to all alternative query execution plans that can be generated through the transformations, and study the performances of alternative query execution plans through extensive experiments.