Spoofax at Oracle: Domain-Specific Language Engineering for Large-Scale Graph Analytics

Boukham, Houda; Wachsmuth, Guido; Hartman, Toine; Boucherit, Hamza; van Rest, Oskar; Chafi, Hassan; Hong, Sungpack; Dwars, Martijn; Delamare, Arnaud; Chiadmi, Dalila

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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.EVCS.2023.5
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Software and its engineering → Domain specific languages
Software and its engineering → Translator writing systems and compiler generators

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language workbench
domain-specific language

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Abstract

For the last decade, teams at Oracle relied on the Spoofax language workbench to develop a family of domain-specific languages for graph analytics in research projects and in product development. In this paper, we analyze the requirements for integrating language processors into large-scale graph analytics toolkits and for the development of these language processors as part of a larger product development process. We discuss how Spoofax helps to meet these requirements and point out the need for future improvements.

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Houda Boukham, Guido Wachsmuth, Toine Hartman, Hamza Boucherit, Oskar van Rest, Hassan Chafi, Sungpack Hong, Martijn Dwars, Arnaud Delamare, and Dalila Chiadmi. Spoofax at Oracle: Domain-Specific Language Engineering for Large-Scale Graph Analytics. In Eelco Visser Commemorative Symposium (EVCS 2023). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 109, pp. 5:1-5:8, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023) https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.EVCS.2023.5

Author Details

Houda Boukham

Mohammed V University in Rabat, Ecole Mohammadia d'Ingénieurs, Morocco
Oracle Labs, Casablanca, Morocco

Guido Wachsmuth

Oracle Labs, Zürich, Switzerland

Toine Hartman

Oracle Labs, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Hamza Boucherit

Oracle Labs, Casablanca, Morocco

Oskar van Rest

Oracle, Redwood Shores, CA, USA

Hassan Chafi

Oracle Labs, Zürich, Switzerland

Sungpack Hong

Oracle Labs, Redwood Shores, CA, USA

Martijn Dwars

Oracle Labs, Zürich, Switzerland

Arnaud Delamare

Oracle Labs, Zürich, Switzerland

Dalila Chiadmi

Mohammed V University in Rabat, Ecole Mohammadia d'Ingénieurs, Morocco

Acknowledgements

The following people contributed to Spoofax implementations of domain-specific languages for graph analytics as presented in this paper (in alphabetical order): Alexander Weld, Amin Ait Lamqadem, Arnaud Delamare, Calin Iorgulescu, Daco Harkes, Daniel Lehmann, Daniel Pelsmaeker, Danny Groenewegen, Davide Basilio Bartolini, Eelco Visser, Felix Kaser, Gabriel Konat, Guido Wachsmuth, Hamid El Maazouz, Hamza Boucher, Houda Boukham, Hugo Kapp, Ivo Wilms, Jan van der Lugt, Jeff Smits, Jinha Kim, Jinsoo Lee, Korbinian Schmid, Luis Eduardo de Souza Amorim, Manuel Then, Martijn Dwars, Martin Sevenich, Matthijs Bijman, Mohammed Bacha, Moritz Baumann, Mourad Abbay, Omar Heddi, Oskar van Rest, Ossama Elbourakkadi, Patrick Gruntz, Ragahavan Raman, Rob Vermaas, Siegfried Depner, Stefan Kaestle, Sungpack Hong, Toine Hartman, Vlad Vergu.

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