devUDF: Increasing UDF development efficiency through IDE Integration. It works like a PyCharm!
Mark Raasveldt, Pedro Holanda, Stefan Manegold · Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), the national research institute for mathematics and computer science in the Netherlands · 2019
User-defined functions (UDFs) facilitate the execution of analytics pipelines inside the database. They provide many advantages over traditional methods, such as close-to-data execution and automatic parallelization. However, the standard workflow for developing and debugging UDFs does not allow developers to use their regular toolchains and Integrated Development Environments (IDEs). As a result, writing functional UDFs is challenging. In this demo, we present the devUDF, a plugin to the PyCharm IDE that allows developers to develop and debug their MonetDB/Python UDFs directly from within the IDE.