FunDa: scalable serverless data analytics and in situ query processing
Elyes Lounissi, Suvam Kumar Das, Ronnit Peter, Xiaozheng Zhang, Suprio Ray, Lianyin Jia · Journal Of Big Data · 2025
The pay-what-you-use model of serverless Cloud computing (or serverless, for short) offers significant benefits to the users. This computing paradigm is ideal for short running ephemeral tasks, however, it is not suitable for stateful long running tasks, such as complex data analytics and query processing. We propose F u n Da, an on-premises serverless data analytics framework, which extends our previously proposed system for unified data analytics and in situ SQL query processing called DaskDB. Unlike existing serverless solutions, which struggle with stateful and long running data analytics tasks, F u n Da overcomes their limitations. Our ongoing research focuses on developing a robust architecture for F u n Da, enabling true serverless in on-premises environments, while being able to operate on a public Cloud, such as AWS Cloud. We have evaluated our system on several benchmarks with different scale factors. Our experimental results in both on-premises and AWS Cloud settings demonstrate F u n Da’s ability to support automatic scaling, low-latency execution of data analytics workloads, and more flexibility to serverless users.