Lambada: Interactive Data Analytics on Cold Data Using Serverless Cloud Infrastructure [Poster]

Abstract

The massive, instantaneous parallelism of serverless functions has created a lot of excitement for interactive batch applications. However, due to fundamental limitations of current offerings, there was no consensus yet as to whether or not this architecture is suitable for data processing. We present Lambada, a data analytics framework designed for serverless functions that overcomes the current limitations and simultaneously achieves better performance and lower cost than commercial alternatives.