Photon Vectorized Execution Engine - Technical Deep Dive

Dive deep into the inner workings of Photon, Databricks' new vectorized execution engine written in C++, in this 25-minute technical session. Explore the fundamental components of a vectorized engine through an example query evaluation, complete with code snippets. Gain insights into expression evaluation, compute kernels, runtime adaptivity, filter evaluation, and vectorized operations against hash tables. Learn about the latest trends in database management, aggregation techniques, compute hashes and buckets, active rows, benchmarks, data writing processes, and Photon's performance capabilities. Enhance your understanding of advanced data processing techniques and how they contribute to accelerating innovation in unified data analytics platforms.

Introduction
Trends
Compute kernels
Aggregation
Compute hashes
Compute buckets
Active rows
Benchmarks
Writing Data
Photon Performance