FPGA-Enabled HTAP Support

Investigate and develop FPGA-enabled HTAP database architectures and operators that support a broad set of HTAP workloads by implementing missing operators and evaluating effectiveness across transactional and analytical tasks.

Background

The survey discusses hardware acceleration for HTAP, noting recent progress using near-data processing and FPGAs. However, many operators needed for comprehensive HTAP support remain unimplemented, and coverage across diverse workloads is limited.

The authors highlight this as an explicit open problem, calling for broader operator implementation and workload exploration to realize practical FPGA-enabled HTAP systems.

References

The second open problem is the FPGA-enabled HTAP. Recent works have shown some promising results on such a task, but more HTAP workloads need to be explored as many operators have yet to be implemented.

— HTAP Databases: A Survey  (2404.15670 - Zhang et al., 2024) in Section 6 (Open Problems and Challenges)