Advanced Database and Intelligence Lab
Announcements
NOURISH Website Launched
Fresh Food, Fresh Opportunities
24 million Americans live in food deserts where ultraprocessed foods are abundant and fresh food is scarce, giving rise to large health disparities in diabetes and related cardiometabolic diseases.
NOURISH app provides current and future small business owners with access to:
- Chat-based interface available in multiple languages
- Loan and grant information
- Online maps that optimize the placement of fresh food outlets for foot traffic
- Help with navigating the convoluted business permitting process
- AI-enabled guidance on affordable ways to locally source fresh ingredients
Demonstrating AWESOME
A Tri-Store Data System for Multi-Model Analytics
Modern data science applications increasingly use heterogeneous data sources and analytics, leading to growing interest in polystore systems. Instead of a general-purpose polystore system, we present AWESOME (Analytics WorkbEnch for SOcial MEdia), a cutting-edge specialized “tri-store” system tailored to analytics workloads spanning relational, graph, and text data. AWESOME features a powerful domain-specific language, ADIL, which empowers users to concisely express complex applications involving cross-DBMSs queries, text and graph analytical functions, and transformations across the three data types. By incorporating a learned optimizer, it intelligently selects the optimal platform for analytical functions and the most efficient data stores for intermediate processing, which eliminates the need for users to grapple with intricate coding or complex decision-making in heterogeneous data environments.