Better Together: Unifying Datalog and Equality Saturation
Yihong Zhang, Yisu Remy Wang, Oliver Flatt, David Cao, Philip Zucker, Eli A. Rosenthal, Zachary Tatlock, Max Willsey · Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages · 2023
We present egglog, a fixpoint reasoning system that unifies Datalog and equality saturation (EqSat). Like Datalog, egglog supports efficient incremental execution, cooperating analyses, and lattice-based reasoning. Like EqSat, egglog supports term rewriting, efficient congruence closure, and extraction of optimized terms. We identify two recent applications -- a unification-based pointer analysis in Datalog and an EqSat-based floating-point term rewriter -- that have been hampered by features missing from Datalog but found in EqSat or vice-versa. We evaluate our system by reimplementing those projects in egglog. The resulting systems in egglog are faster, simpler, and fix bugs found in the original systems.