Thu 24 Oct 2024 11:40 - 12:00 at IBR West - Datalog Chair(s): John Regehr

Modern usages of Datalog exceed its original design purpose in scale and complexity. In particular, Datalog lacks abstractions for code organization and reuse, making programs hard to maintain. Is it possible to exploit abstractions and design patterns from object-oriented programming (OOP) while retaining a Datalog-like fixpoint semantics? To answer this question, we design a new OOP language called OODL with common OOP features: dynamic object allocation, object identity, dynamic dispatch, and mutation. However, OODL has a Datalog-like fixpoint semantics, such that recursive computations iterate until their result becomes stable. We develop two semantics for OODL: a fixpoint interpreter and a compiler that translates OODL to Datalog. Although the side effects found in OOP (object allocation and mutation) conflict with Datalog’s fixpoint semantics, we can mostly resolve these incompatibilities through extensions of OODL. Within fixpoint computations, we employ immutable algebraic data structures (e.g. case classes in Scala), rather than relying on object allocation, and we introduce monotonically mutable data types (mono types) to enable a relaxed form of mutation. Our performance evaluation shows that the interpreter fails to solve fixpoint problems efficiently, whereas the compiled code exploits Datalog’s semi-naïve evaluation.

Thu 24 Oct

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10:40 - 12:20
DatalogOOPSLA 2024 at IBR West
Chair(s): John Regehr University of Utah
10:40
20m
Talk
A Typed Multi-Level Datalog IR and its Compiler Framework
OOPSLA 2024
David Klopp JGU Mainz, Sebastian Erdweg JGU Mainz, André Pacak JGU Mainz
DOI
11:00
20m
Talk
Finding Cross-rule Optimization Bugs in Datalog Engines
OOPSLA 2024
Chi Zhang Nanjing University, Linzhang Wang Nanjing University, Manuel Rigger National University of Singapore
DOI
11:20
20m
Talk
Making Formulog Fast: An Argument for Unconventional Datalog EvaluationOOPSLA 2024 Distinguished Artifact Award
OOPSLA 2024
Aaron Bembenek University of Melbourne, Michael Greenberg Stevens Institute of Technology, Stephen Chong Harvard University
DOI Pre-print
11:40
20m
Talk
Object-Oriented Fixpoint Programming with Datalog
OOPSLA 2024
David Klopp JGU Mainz, Sebastian Erdweg JGU Mainz, André Pacak JGU Mainz
DOI
12:00
20m
Talk
Scaling Abstraction Refinement for Program Analyses in Datalog Using Graph Neural Networks
OOPSLA 2024
Zhenyu Yan Peking University, Xin Zhang Peking University, Peng Di Ant Group
DOI