1. William O’Mullane/ Tannu Malik - JHU IVOA Cambridge May 12-16, 2003 SkyQuery.Net SKYQUERY www.skyquery.net Federated Database Query System (using WebServices) Developed by : Tanu Malik, Alex Szalay, Tamas Budavari, Ani Thakar @ :The Johns Hopkins University Rational Same drivers as VOQL/IVOA Large/complex astronomy queries Query over disjoint/distributed archives Demonstrator for NVO database federation. See if WebServices really work Development Time ~ 5 Man Months Done over 6 week period.

2. William O’Mullane/ Tannu Malik - JHU IVOA Cambridge May 12-16, 2003 SkyQuery.Net 1. Building a basic framework that allows federation, respecting autonomy (and heterogeneity). Use a simple architecture and provide medium for interoperability acceptable to all. 2. Using the framework to solve scientific queries. Specifying queries transparently. Executing queries efficiently. WebServices Soloution SkyQuery uses Web Services for interoperability. Use of Internet standards. Communication Protocol : HTTP Message Exchange Model: Simple Object Access Protocol(SOAP) eXtended Markup Language(XML) encoding. Service Description : Web Services Description Language (WSDL), Federation Issues

3. William O’Mullane/ Tannu Malik - JHU IVOA Cambridge May 12-16, 2003 SkyQuery.Net Architecture SkyNodes Portal Meta-data archive Meta-data Information Query Cross-Match Registration SkyQuery Clients WebServices

4. William O’Mullane/ Tannu Malik - JHU IVOA Cambridge May 12-16, 2003 SkyQuery.Net SIMPLE SQL based on BumbleBee Lex/Yacc using basic SQL syntax from a book Added extension for Area (now also Poly,Chull in development). Added extension for XMATCH (About 6 weeks work) Looks like this Query Language SELECT o.objId, o.weight, o.color, t.lambda FROM SDSS:PhotoObject o, TWOMASS:PhotoPrimary t FIRST: PrimaryObject p WHERE AREA(181.3,-0.76,6.5) AND XMATCH(o,t,p)<3.5 AND type=GALAXY and (o.I - t.m_j)>2 Try SkyQuery.Net

5. William O’Mullane/ Tannu Malik - JHU IVOA Cambridge May 12-16, 2003 SkyQuery.Net Obtain counts of objects in each catalogue. Take first catalogue (smallest) Select an object Select all objects in next Catalogue within a generous radius of the Object (HTM) Assume a position for the real body – effectively the weighted mean position of the objects in consideration Then minimise Chisquare formula to work out radius for match Evaluate which objects fall in the radius for a match. More info on http://www.skyquery.net/matching.htmhttp://www.skyquery.net/matching.htm Good for small areas now – optimization in pipeline. XMatch

6. William O’Mullane/ Tannu Malik - JHU IVOA Cambridge May 12-16, 2003 SkyQuery.Net Query Execution Goal of distributed query execution Minimize processing costs. Minimize transmission costs. Performance Queries. A SQL-like query to find upper bound on the number of tuples. Query Execution Plan(QEP) An efficient plan constructed based on results of performance queries.

7. William O’Mullane/ Tannu Malik - JHU IVOA Cambridge May 12-16, 2003 SkyQuery.Net Done First P1: SELECT count(*) FROM SDSS: Photo_Object O WHERE AREA( 189.83,-0.52,8.5 ) AND O.type = 3. P2: SELECT count(*) FROM TWOMASS: Photo_Primary T WHERE AREA( 189.83,-0.52,8.5 ) P3: SELECT count(*) FROM FIRST: Primary_Object P WHERE AREA( 189.83,-0.52,8.5 ) Performance Queries SELECT o.objId, o.ra, o.r, o.type, t.objId FROM SDSS:PhotoPrimary o, TWOMASS:PhotoPrimary t, FIRST:PhotoPrimary p WHERE XMATCH(o,t,!p)<3.5 AND AREA(189.83,-0.52,8.5) AND o.type=3

8. William O’Mullane/ Tannu Malik - JHU IVOA Cambridge May 12-16, 2003 SkyQuery.Net Say, R3 < R2 < R1 QEP T1: URL1, SELECT o.objId, o.ra, o.r, o.type, t.objId FROM SDSS:PhotoPrimary o WHERE AREA(189.83,-0.52,8.5)AND o.type=3 AND XMATCH(o,t,!p)<3.5 T2: URL2, SELECT o.objId, o.ra, o.r, o.type, t.objId FROM TWOMASS:PhotoPrimary t WHERE AREA(189.83,-0.52,8.5) AND XMATCH(o,t,!p)<3.5 T3: URL3, SELECT p.objid,p.cx,p.cy,p,cz FROM FIRST: PrimaryObject p WHERE AREA(189.83,-0.52,8.5) Query Execution Plan No Xmatch needed at last archive

9. William O’Mullane/ Tannu Malik - JHU IVOA Cambridge May 12-16, 2003 SkyQuery.Net Query Execution SKYNODE 3SKYNODE 2 SKYNODE 1 CLIENT PORTAL 2. QEP 1.Performance Queries T3 result T2 result

10. William O’Mullane/ Tannu Malik - JHU IVOA Cambridge May 12-16, 2003 SkyQuery.Net Tools now exist to develop federations fast. Adding new nodes is “trivial”. Web services work and are effective for building federations. POS skynode to come INT skynode added (McMahon) This was pre VOTable – will be added Formal package to be made – shrink wrap package with guide. Lessons

11. William O’Mullane/ Tannu Malik - JHU IVOA Cambridge May 12-16, 2003 SkyQuery.Net Two parts : 1. User level interface XML (easy parse) GUI (easy use),SQL (standard? All of the above ? 2. Participant DB interfaces Support only simple queries More advanced Xmatch, Region??? WebService interface seems appropriate. Use Data Model for names of items (presumably)? What about IVO