A new runtime for k and q: l
Summary
The article introduces l, a new runtime for k and q/k/qSQL that uses compressed vectors, SIMD, and auto-parallelism to accelerate analytics. It preserves compatibility with existing syntax and data types while enabling end-to-end compression and direct execution on compressed data, with benchmarks showing significant speedups across multiple suites and workloads. It also highlights practical aspects like various execution paths, hardware offload, and open-source repository references.