Trance

Overview

Trance is an approach to querying nested data sources -- collections that can contain collections -- over large-scale distributed processing systems like Apache Spark.

People

• Jaclyn Smith
• Milos Nikolic
• Michael Benedikt
• Brandon Moore
• Ember Wyss-Brennan

References

• Scalable Querying of Nested Data -
  Jaclyn Smith, Michael Benedikt, Milos Nikolic, and Amir Shaikhha , VLDB 2021 A video of the conference presentation can be found here
• TraNCE: Transforming Nested Collections Efficiently -
  Jaclyn Smith, Michael Benedikt, Brandon Moore, and Milos Nikolic, VLDB 2021 (demo).
• Scalable Analysis of Multi-Modal Biomedical Data -
  Jaclyn Smith, Yao Shi, Michael Benedikt, and Milos Nikolic, Gigabio 2021

Obtaining Trance

The Trance sourcecode can be found on github

Demonstration

Depending on the state of our webserver at the moment, you may be able to find an online demonstration of Trance here . The following video presents a walk-through to the user interface.