haxl: A Haskell library for efficient, concurrent, and concise data access.
Haxl is a library and EDSL for efficient scheduling of concurrent data accesses with a concise applicative API.
To use Haxl, you need to implement one or more data sources, which provide the means for accessing remote data or other I/O that you want to perform using Haxl.
Haxl provides two top-level modules:
Data-source implementations import Haxl.Core,
Client code import your data sources and Haxl.Prelude, or some other client-level API that you provide.
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| Dependencies | aeson (>=0.6 && <1.5), base (>=4.7 && <5), binary (>=0.7 && <0.10), bytestring (>=0.9 && <0.11), containers (>=0.5 && <0.7), deepseq, exceptions (>=0.8 && <0.11), filepath (>=1.3 && <1.5), ghc-prim, hashable (>=1.2 && <1.3), haxl, pretty (>=1.1 && <1.2), semigroups (>=0.18.3 && <0.19), stm (>=2.4 && <2.6), text (>=1.2.1.0 && <1.3), time (>=1.4 && <1.9), transformers, unordered-containers (>=0.2 && <0.3), vector (>=0.10 && <0.13) [details] |
| License | BSD-3-Clause |
| Copyright | Copyright (c) 2014-present, Facebook, Inc. |
| Author | Facebook, Inc. |
| Maintainer | The Haxl Team <haxl-team@fb.com> |
| Category | Concurrency |
| Home page | https://github.com/facebook/Haxl |
| Bug tracker | https://github.com/facebook/Haxl/issues |
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Haxl
Haxl is a Haskell library that simplifies access to remote data, such as databases or web-based services. Haxl can automatically
- batch multiple requests to the same data source,
- request data from multiple data sources concurrently,
- cache previous requests,
- memoize computations.
Having all this handled for you behind the scenes means that your data-fetching code can be much cleaner and clearer than it would otherwise be if it had to worry about optimizing data-fetching. We'll give some examples of how this works in the pages linked below.
There are two Haskell packages here:
haxl: The core Haxl frameworkhaxl-facebook(in https://github.com/facebook/Haxl/tree/master/example/facebook): An (incomplete) example data source for accessing the Facebook Graph API
To use Haxl in your own application, you will likely need to build one or more data sources: the thin layer between Haxl and the data that you want to fetch, be it a database, a web API, a cloud service, or whatever.
There is a generic datasource in "Haxl.DataSource.ConcurrentIO" that can be used for performing arbitrary IO operations concurrently, given a bit of boilerplate to define the IO operations you want to perform.
The haxl-facebook package shows how we might build a Haxl data
source based on the existing fb package for talking to the Facebook
Graph API.
Where to go next?
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The Story of Haxl explains how Haxl came about at Facebook, and discusses our particular use case.
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An example Facebook data source walks through building an example data source that queries the Facebook Graph API concurrently.
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Fun with Haxl (part 1) Walks through using Haxl from scratch for a simple SQLite-backed blog engine.
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The N+1 Selects Problem explains how Haxl can address a common performance problem with SQL queries by automatically batching multiple queries into a single query, without the programmer having to specify this behavior.
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Haxl Documentation on Hackage.
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There is no Fork: An Abstraction for Efficient, Concurrent, and Concise Data Access, our paper on Haxl, accepted for publication at ICFP'14.