Patent Publication Number: US-10783014-B2

Title: Data statement monitoring and control

Description:
RELATED APPLICATIONS 
     The present application is a continuation of, and claims the benefit of priority to, U.S. patent application Ser. No. 15/657,194 titled, “DATA STATEMENT MONITORING AND CONTROL”, filed Jul. 23, 2017, which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety. 
    
    
     FIELD 
     This disclosure relates to data analytics, and more particularly to techniques for data statement monitoring and control. 
     BACKGROUND 
     With the continued proliferation of information sensing devices (e.g., mobile phones, online computers, RFID tags, sensors, etc.), increasingly larger volumes of data are collected for various business intelligence (BI) purposes. For example, the web browsing activities of online users are captured in various datasets (e.g., cookies, log files, etc.) that are used by online advertisers in targeted advertising campaigns. Data from operational sources (e.g., point of sale systems, accounting systems, CRM systems, etc.) can be combined with data from online sources. With such large volumes of data from varying sources and with varying structures (e.g., relational, multidimensional, delimited flat file, document, etc.), the use of data warehouses, distributed file systems (e.g., Hadoop distributed file system or HDFS), and/or other data storage environments to store and access data has increased. For example, an HDFS environment can be implemented for datasets having a flat file structure with predetermined delimiters and associated metadata. 
     Syntax and semantics for such metadata can be defined so as to accommodate a broad range of data types and structures. For example, metadata might describe keys that are used to access the delimited data values that comprise the datasets. The users (e.g., BI analysts) of such large and dynamic datasets desire to query the datasets in certain ways, using familiar capabilities that derive from a relatively small set of BI tools (e.g., Excel, Tableau, Qlik, etc.). In many cases, an enterprise makes capital and organizational investments in a particular BI tool (e.g., to obtain licenses, train staff, etc.). Commensurate with such capital and organizational investments, the enterprise would desire to use that tool to access any and all current and future data storage environments that may comprise data of interest to the enterprise. 
     Unfortunately, accessing data across multiple data storage environments from a particular BI tool is fraught with any number of challenges. For example, BI tools often employ standard protocols (e.g., XMLA, HS2, HTTP, etc.) to securely and reliably interact with (e.g., submit queries to) the various query engines (e.g., Impala, Spark SQL, Hive, Drill, Presto, etc.) associated with respective data storage environments (e.g., an HDFS environment, a relational database management system or RDMS environment, a SQL data warehouse environment, etc.). However, such standard protocols are limited in their functionality, at least in that certain of such standard protocols (e.g., XMLA) might merely facilitate sending a query (e.g., issuing data statements from a BI tool to a storage environment) and receiving the query results (e.g., at the BI tool). During the performance of the protocol, user activity is suspended (e.g., blocked) between the time of sending the query and the time of receiving the results. The duration of the suspension while the user is waiting can be several seconds, or minutes or longer for successively larger datasets. Wait times of this magnitude detract from the user experience. Moreover, a user might not know how long of a wait time to expect, resulting in further degradation of the user experience. 
     Other protocols (e.g., HS2) might facilitate polling for a high order query status (e.g., in process, complete, failed, etc.) and informing the user of such status, but still leaves the user waiting for an unknown period of time until query completion (or failure). To provide more information to the user of the BI tool, some approaches rely on a custom protocol that extends the capabilities of the standard protocols. However, such custom solutions involve implementation of certain components (e.g., custom application programming interfaces or APIs and/or custom user interfaces or UIs, etc.), the implementation of which often covers the entire software stack to facilitate operation of such custom solutions. 
     For example, a custom solution from each of the many query engines across multiple data storage environments would involve implementing many respective APIs and UIs in the BI tools. Such custom implementations in the BI tools and/or other points the software stack might be difficult or impossible to obtain. What is needed is an environment-independent and tool-independent technological solution that facilitates enhanced data statement (e.g., query) management (e.g., monitoring, control, etc.) by users of BI tools. More specifically, what is needed is fine-grained management of data statements issued from BI tools to multiple heterogeneous data storage environments without modifying the BI tools. 
     What is needed is a technique or techniques to improve over legacy techniques and/or over other considered approaches. Some of the approaches described in this background section are approaches that could be pursued, but not necessarily approaches that have been previously conceived or pursued. Therefore, unless otherwise indicated, it should not be assumed that any of the approaches described in this section qualify as prior art merely by virtue of their inclusion in this section. 
     SUMMARY 
     The present disclosure provides a detailed description of techniques used in systems, methods, and in computer program products for data statement monitoring and control, which techniques advance the relevant technologies to address technological issues with legacy approaches. More specifically, the present disclosure provides a detailed description of techniques used in systems, methods, and in computer program products for real-time data statement monitoring and control over multiple data storage environments. Certain embodiments are directed to technological solutions for implementing a data statement management agent that interacts with an event bus in a data statement processing layer to facilitate enhanced data statement management over multiple data storage environments. 
     The disclosed embodiments modify and improve over legacy approaches. In particular, the herein-disclosed techniques provide technical solutions that address the technical problems attendant to missing or low-functionality data statement management capability pertaining to data statements issued to operate over multiple heterogeneous data storage environments. Such technical solutions relate to improvements in computer functionality. Various applications of the herein-disclosed improvements in computer functionality serve to reduce the demand for computer memory, reduce the demand for computer processing power, reduce network bandwidth use, and reduce the demand for inter-component communication. Some embodiments disclosed herein use techniques to improve the functioning of multiple systems within the disclosed environments, and some embodiments advance peripheral technical fields as well. As one specific example, use of the disclosed techniques and devices within the shown environments as depicted in the figures provide advances in the technical field of business intelligence systems as well as advances in various technical fields related to managing heterogeneous computing systems. 
     Further details of aspects, objectives, and advantages of the technological embodiments are described herein and in the drawings and claims. 
    
    
     
       BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
       The drawings described below are for illustration purposes only. The drawings are not intended to limit the scope of the present disclosure. 
         FIG. 1  is a diagram that depicts a selection of implementation techniques for real-time data statement monitoring and control over multiple data storage environments, according to some embodiments. 
         FIG. 2  depicts a data statement management technique as implemented in systems that facilitate real-time data statement monitoring and control over multiple data storage environments, according to some embodiments. 
         FIG. 3  is a block diagram of a data statement management system that implements real-time data statement monitoring and control over multiple data storage environments, according to an embodiment. 
         FIG. 4  is a schematic of a computing environment suitable for implementing real-time data statement monitoring and control over multiple data storage environments, according to an embodiment. 
         FIG. 5  exemplifies a data statement monitoring technique as implemented in systems that facilitate real-time data statement monitoring and control over multiple data storage environments, according to an embodiment. 
         FIG. 6  illustrates a data statement control technique as implemented in systems that facilitate real-time data statement monitoring and control over multiple data storage environments, according to an embodiment. 
         FIG. 7  depicts system components as arrangements of computing modules that are interconnected so as to implement certain of the herein-disclosed embodiments. 
         FIG. 8A  and  FIG. 8B  present block diagrams of computer system architectures having components suitable for implementing embodiments of the present disclosure, and/or for use in the herein-described environments. 
     
    
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION 
     Embodiments in accordance with the present disclosure address the problem of missing or low-functionality data statement management capability pertaining to data statements issued to operate over multiple heterogeneous data storage environments. Some embodiments are directed to approaches for implementing a data statement management agent that interacts with an event bus in a data statement processing layer to facilitate enhanced data statement management over multiple data storage environments. The accompanying figures and discussions herein present example environments, systems, methods, and computer program products for real-time data statement monitoring and control over multiple data storage environments. 
     Overview 
     Disclosed herein are techniques for implementing a data statement management agent that interacts with an event bus in a data statement processing layer to facilitate enhanced data statement management over multiple data storage environments. In certain embodiments, the data statement processing layer operates on one or more computing nodes (e.g., servers) and interfaces with various client applications (e.g., BI tools) and data storage environments (e.g., HDFS environments, RDBMS environments, etc.). The event bus at the data statement processing layer transmits various event objects pertaining to data statements being processed at the data statement processing layer. The data statement management agent accesses various data statement management rules corresponding to the users of the client applications. These data statement management rules are applied to the event objects to identify a set of selected event objects. The selected event objects are transformed into one or more event messages that are delivered in real time to the users at the client applications. The real-time delivery of the event messages facilitates enhanced data statement management (e.g., query monitoring) for the users. In certain embodiments, control commands from the client applications are received by the data statement management agent and issued to the data statement processing layer to effect one or more data statements being processed. Such real-time user interaction with issued data statements further facilitates enhanced data statement management (e.g., query control). 
     Definitions and Use of Figures 
     Some of the terms used in this description are defined below for easy reference. The presented terms and their respective definitions are not rigidly restricted to these definitions—a term may be further defined by the term&#39;s use within this disclosure. The term “exemplary” is used herein to mean serving as an example, instance, or illustration. Any aspect or design described herein as “exemplary” is not necessarily to be construed as preferred or advantageous over other aspects or designs. Rather, use of the word exemplary is intended to present concepts in a concrete fashion. As used in this application and the appended claims, the term “or” is intended to mean an inclusive “or” rather than an exclusive “or”. That is, unless specified otherwise, or is clear from the context, “X employs A or B” is intended to mean any of the natural inclusive permutations. That is, if X employs A, X employs B, or X employs both A and B, then “X employs A or B” is satisfied under any of the foregoing instances. As used herein, at least one of A or B means at least one of A, or at least one of B, or at least one of both A and B. In other words, this phrase is disjunctive. The articles “a” and “an” as used in this application and the appended claims should generally be construed to mean “one or more” unless specified otherwise or is clear from the context to be directed to a singular form. 
     Various embodiments are described herein with reference to the figures. It should be noted that the figures are not necessarily drawn to scale and that elements of similar structures or functions are sometimes represented by like reference characters throughout the figures. It should also be noted that the figures are only intended to facilitate the description of the disclosed embodiments—they are not representative of an exhaustive treatment of all possible embodiments, and they are not intended to impute any limitation as to the scope of the claims. In addition, an illustrated embodiment need not portray all aspects or advantages of usage in any particular environment. 
     An aspect or an advantage described in conjunction with a particular embodiment is not necessarily limited to that embodiment and can be practiced in any other embodiments even if not so illustrated. References throughout this specification to “some embodiments” or “other embodiments” refer to a particular feature, structure, material or characteristic described in connection with the embodiments as being included in at least one embodiment. Thus, the appearance of the phrases “in some embodiments” or “in other embodiments” in various places throughout this specification are not necessarily referring to the same embodiment or embodiments. The disclosed embodiments are not intended to be limiting of the claims. 
     Descriptions of Example Embodiments 
       FIG. 1  is a diagram that depicts a selection of implementation techniques  100  for real-time data statement monitoring and control over multiple data storage environments. As an option, one or more variations of implementation techniques  100  or any aspect thereof may be implemented in the context of the architecture and functionality of the embodiments described herein. The implementation techniques  100  or any aspect thereof may be implemented in any environment. 
     The embodiment shown in  FIG. 1  illustrates merely one example implementation of the herein disclosed techniques for real-time data statement monitoring and control over multiple data storage environments. As shown, the techniques are implemented in a data statement processing layer  120  that spans multiple computing nodes (e.g., computing node  150   1 , computing node  150   K , and computing node  150   N ) in, for example, a distributed computing system. A data statement processing layer, such as data statement processing layer  120 , transforms data statements from various client applications (e.g., BI tools) into data operations that operate on various datasets stored in a plurality of data storage environments. In some cases, the transformations comprise mapping the data statement semantics to the data operation semantics and/or optimizing (e.g., for minimal execution times) the data operations for the target datasets and/or data storage environments. As can be observed, each of the data storage environments  110  accessible by data statement processing layer  120  might comprise a particular query engine (e.g., query engine  112   1 , query engine  112   K , query engine  112   L , and query engine  112   M ) configured to operate on a corresponding set of stored data (e.g., stored data  114   1 , stored data  114   K , stored data  114   L , and stored data  114   M ). The stored data in data storage environments  110  can be organized in accordance with various architectures (e.g., HDFS, RDBMS, etc.) having a respective variety of query engines (e.g., Impala, Spark SQL, Hive, Drill, Presto, etc.). As an example, data statement processing layer  120  might transform a SQL data query from Tableau into data operations that are specifically formatted for an Impala query engine to operate on a dataset in an HDFS environment. 
     The data statements are processed (e.g., analyzed, planned, executed, etc.) by instances of a data analytics engine (e.g., data analytics engine  122   1 , data analytics engine  122   K , and data analytics engine  122   N ) at the computing nodes in data statement processing layer  120 . Specifically, referring to data analytics engine  122   K  in computing node  150   K , data statements  132  from client application  104  at client device  102  are processed by data analytics engine  122   K . For example, a user  108  might interact with a user interface  106  at client device  102  to issue the data statements. Such data statements can comprise data definition language (DDL) statements, data manipulation language (DML) statements (e.g., data queries), transaction control statements, session control statements, system control statements, embedded statements, and/or other structured programming code to operate over one or more datasets. A set of data operations  134  derived from data statements  132  are issued by data analytics engine  122   K  to, for example, query engine  112   K  for operation on stored data  114   K . A result set  136  generated from data operations  134  is returned to client application  104  and viewed, for example, by user  108  at user interface  106 . As earlier mentioned, however, capabilities for monitoring and/or controlling the processed data statements can be limited. 
     As depicted in the embodiment of  FIG. 1 , the herein disclosed techniques address such limitations, at least in part, by implementing an event bus  126  and instances of a data statement management agent (e.g., data statement management agent  124   1 , data statement management agent  124   K , and data statement management agent  124   N ) in data statement processing layer  120 . Event bus  126  transmits various instances of event objects  142  pertaining to data statements being processed at data statement processing layer  120 . In some cases, event objects associated with data statements processed at one computing node might be accessible at another computing node. The instances of the data statement management agent access various data statement management rules corresponding to the users of the client applications, and apply the data statement management rules to the event objects to identify a set of selected event objects. 
     Specifically, as shown in  FIG. 1 , data statement management agent  124   K  applies the data statement management rules  144  (e.g., associated with user  108  and client application  104  at client device  102 ) to event objects  142  to identify a set of selected event objects  146 . Selected event objects  146  are then transformed into instances of event messages  148  that are delivered in real time to user  108  at client application  104 . The real-time delivery of the event messages facilitates enhanced data statement management (e.g., query monitoring) for users such as user  108 . In certain embodiments, control commands from the client applications are received by the data statement management agent and issued to data statement processing layer  120  to effect one or more data statements being processed. Such control commands comprise information that is interpreted to invoke one or more actions and/or operations. In some cases, the information of a control command is organized as a programming object (e.g., in JSON) to facilitate electronic transfer to and/or interpretation by a receiving entity. For example, control commands  149  might be invoked by user  108  at user interface  106  of client device  102  and sent to data statement management agent  124   K  to effect (e.g., cancel, pause, etc.) one or more of the data statements  132  processed at data statement processing layer  120 . Such real-time user interaction with issued data statements (e.g., data statements  132 ) further facilitates enhanced data statement management (e.g., query control). The foregoing enhanced data statement management (e.g., query monitoring, query control, etc.) facilitated by the herein disclosed techniques is implemented in unmodified instances of the client application and data storage environments. Specifically, the data statement processing layer  120  can be implemented without any modifications to the client application or data storage environments. 
     Further details describing the aforementioned data statement processing, monitoring, and control operations as facilitated by the herein disclosed techniques are presented and discussed as pertains to  FIG. 2 . 
       FIG. 2  depicts a data statement management technique  200  as implemented in systems that facilitate real-time data statement monitoring and control over multiple data storage environments. As an option, one or more variations of data statement management technique  200  or any aspect thereof may be implemented in the context of the architecture and functionality of the embodiments described herein. The data statement management technique  200  or any aspect thereof may be implemented in any environment. 
     The data statement management technique  200  presents one embodiment of certain steps and/or operations that facilitate real-time data statement monitoring and control over multiple data storage environments. As shown, the steps and/or operations can be grouped in a set of setup operations  210 , a set of monitoring operations  250 , and a set of control operations  260 . In certain embodiments, these operations can be performed in data statement processing layer  120  as described herein. 
     As illustrated, the setup operations  210  of data statement management technique  200  can commence by processing data statements issued by data statement owners at client applications (e.g., BI tools) to operate on data stored in multiple data storage environments (step  212 ). Any number of client applications and/or data storage environments is possible. A data statement owner might be defined by a user identifier, a combination of a user identifier and a connection identifier (e.g., of identifying a connection to the client application), and/or other identifiers and/or combinations thereof. In some cases, a data statement may have multiple data statement owners, some of which that did not issue the data statement. As further shown in setup operations  210 , an event bus is implemented (e.g., at the data statement processing layer  120 ) to transmit event objects that describe various events that occur during data statement processing (step  214 ). An event object can be any programming object (e.g., instance of a class) that relates various object attributes (e.g., event identifier, timestamp, etc.) associated with a particular event. Certain attributes of an event object might describe, for example, the processing progress of a particular data statement or a metadata change resulting from the processing of a data statement. Event object attributes and data structures are further discussed as pertaining to  FIG. 3 . 
     The monitoring operations  250  shown in  FIG. 2  can commence by accessing the event objects (step  252 ). In environments where data statement processing layer  120  spans multiple physical computing resources (e.g., node appliances at various geographical sites), the event objects originating at one computing resource might be accessible at other computing resources. Further, a set of data statement management rules associated with a respective set of data statement owners is accessed (step  254 ). A set of rules (e.g., a rule base) such as the data statement management rules comprise data records that store various information that can be used to form one or more constraints to apply to certain functions and/or operations. 
     For example, the information pertaining to a rule in the rule base might comprise the conditional logic operands (e.g., input variables, constraints, etc.) and/or operators (e.g., “if”, “then”, “and”, “or”, “greater than”, “less than”, etc.) for forming a conditional logic statement that returns one or more results. In this case, the data statement management rules are applied to event objects to select one or more selected event objects (step  256 ). For example, the data statement management rules might specify an interest only in event types identified by “e03” and “e07”. As such, event objects associated with type identifiers “e03” and “e07” will be included in the selected event objects, while other event objects will be filtered out from the selected event objects. 
     The selected event objects are then transformed into event messages that are delivered to the client applications (step  258 ). For example, the attributes of one or more selected event objects might be used to generate a human-readable message (e.g., “Your query has entered the query planning phase.”) for viewing by a user in a user interface. Other event messages might describe a received query, an incoming query, a planned query, an outgoing query, a query execution time estimate, a query completion indicator, a query failure indicator, one or more subquery operations, and/or other information. 
     In certain embodiments, the herein disclosed techniques can further facilitate data statement control operations. While data statement monitoring operations might push event messages pertaining to certain data statements to a user, data statement control operations receive control commands pertaining to certain data statements from a user. Specifically, the control operations  260  shown in  FIG. 2  receive one or more control commands from the client applications and/or the user interface (e.g., as directed by a user) of the client applications (step  262 ). These control commands are issued to effect one or more of the data statements being processed (step  264 ). For example, a data statement owner might invoke a control command to cancel a particular data statement, which control command, in turn, is issued (e.g., through the event bus  126 ) to an instance of an executor in data statement processing layer  120  to cancel execution of the data statement. 
     A detailed embodiment of a system and associated data structures that implement the techniques disclosed herein is shown and described as pertains to  FIG. 3 . 
       FIG. 3  is a block diagram of a data statement management system  300  that implements real-time data statement monitoring and control over multiple data storage environments. As an option, one or more variations of data statement management system  300  or any aspect thereof may be implemented in the context of the architecture and functionality of the embodiments described herein. The data statement management system  300  or any aspect thereof may be implemented in any environment. 
     As shown in the embodiment of  FIG. 3 , event bus  126 , data statement management agent  124   K , and data analytics engine  122   K  in data statement processing layer  120 , and other components in data statement management system  300 , can interact to implement the herein disclosed techniques for real-time data statement monitoring and control over multiple data storage environments (e.g., data storage environments  110 ). Certain specialized data structures that are designed to improve the way a computer stores and retrieves data in memory when performing such techniques are also shown. 
     As earlier described, data statements  132  from client application  104  at client device  102  are processed by data analytics engine  122   K  to generate a set of data operations  134  that are issued to various instances of data storage environments  110 . A result set  136  responsive to issuing the data operations  134  is returned to client application  104  and viewed, for example, by user  108  at user interface  106 . More specifically, data statements  132  (e.g., SQL queries, MDX queries, etc.) are received at data analytics engine  122   K  by a planner  304 . The planner interacts with an authorization server  312  to determine if the data statements are authorized to be executed. 
     For example, authorization server  312  might access a set of access control data  314  to authenticate a data statement owner and/or determine whether the data statement owner (e.g., user, client application, client device, or combination thereof) is authorized to access the underlying data of a particular data statement or data statements. Other authorization constraints (e.g., execution time limit for certain user roles, etc.) might also be enforced. Further, authorization server  312  might implement any protocol (e.g., OAuth2, Kerberos, LDAP, etc.) to perform the authentication and/or authorization. 
     If the data statement owner is authenticated and authorized to issue a particular data statement, planner  304  performs certain operations (e.g., analysis, optimization, aggregate generation, statement generation, etc.) to generate one or more data operations from the data statement. In some cases, an estimator  302  is implemented to determine an estimate of the execution time of the data statement. The generated data operations are delivered to an executor  306  for issuance to a target data storage environment from the data storage environments  110 . As can be observed, the active components (e.g., estimator  302 , planner  304 , executor  306 , and authorization server  312 ) of data analytics engine  122   K  interact with event bus  126  to send and receive event objects (e.g., event objects  142 ) to and from the event during performance of their respective operations. 
     As earlier described, an event object can be any programming object (e.g., instance of a class) that relates various object attributes associated with a particular event. For example, as depicted in an event object data structure  334 , an event object might relate an event type (e.g., stored in an “event” field), a stream type (e.g., “event” or “metadata” stream type stored in a “stream” field), a time stamp (e.g., stored in a “time” field), a computing host identifier (e.g., stored in a “hostID” field), a data statement owner connection identifier (e.g., stored in a “connID” field), a user identifier (e.g., stored in a “userID” field), a status indicator (e.g., stored in a “status” field), a collection of data elements (e.g., stored in a “data[ ]” tuple), and/or other object attributes. 
     As shown, a message gateway  324  at data statement management agent  124   K  accesses the event objects on event bus  126  to facilitate the herein disclosed techniques. In some cases, message gateway  324  is informed by a web server  322  at data statement management agent  124   K  of data statement owners that desire to monitor and control their respective data statements. Specifically, web server  322  receives data statement owner credentials from, for example, user  108  at client device  102 . More specifically, user  108  might submit certain data statement owner credentials to web server  322  from user interface  106  at client device  102 . In some cases, user interface  106  might be provided by a native application (e.g., client application  104  or other application) at client device  102 . In other cases, user interface  106  might be rendered by web server  322  in a browser at client device  102 . As can be observed, web server  322  can submit the data statement owner credentials (e.g., user identifier, client device identifier, client application identifier, etc.) to authorization server  312  to authenticate and/or authorize the data statement owner to use the services (e.g., data statement monitoring and control services) provided by data statement management agent  124   K . 
     If the data statement owner is authenticated and authorized to use such services, a channel (e.g., a WebSocket connection) is established between web server  322  and client device  102 . Further, a portion of the data statement management rules  144  associated with the data statement owner are accessed. As earlier discussed, data statement management rules  144  comprise data records that store various information that can be used to form one or more constraints to apply to certain functions and/or operations. As depicted in a data statement management rule data structure  332 , various data that derives to one or more rules are associated with a particular data statement owner, which data statement owner is characterized by a user identifier (e.g., stored in a “userID” field) and/or a connection identifier (e.g., an identifier corresponding to the connection between the web server and the client device, stored in a “connID” field). The rule attributes associated with the data statement owner in data statement management rule data structure  332  can describe a stream type (e.g., stored in a “stream” field), an event type (e.g., stored in an “event” field), a metric limit (e.g., a key-value pair stored in a “limit” field), a preference indicator (e.g., stored in a “preference” field), and/or other rule attributes. 
     Message gateway  324  applies the foregoing data statement management rules for the data statement owner to event objects  142  to identify a set of selected event objects (e.g., selected event objects  146 ). The selected event objects are transformed by message gateway  324  to one or more event messages (e.g., event messages  148 ) that are delivered to client device  102 . As an example, the event messages might be organized (e.g., as JSON messages, XML message, etc.) and delivered (e.g., using HTTP, SOAP, CORBA, etc.) by web server  322  to be rendered in user interface  106  for viewing by user  108 . 
     In certain embodiments, various control commands (e.g., control commands  149 ) are received at web server  322 . If the issuer (e.g., user  108 ) of the control commands is authorized (e.g., by authorization server  312 ) to issue the commands, web server  322  can forward the control commands to message gateway  324  for processing. Processing at message gateway  324  might include, for example, converting the control commands to event objects that are placed on event bus  126  for various listening recipients (e.g., executor  306 ) so as to effect (e.g., cancel, pause, etc.) certain data statements. 
     The specific example of a data statement management system shown in  FIG. 3  is purely exemplary, and other systems and/or subsystems and/or partitions and/or data structures are reasonable. One embodiment of a computing and/or storage environment for implementing such systems, subsystems, partitions, and/or data structures is shown and described as pertaining to  FIG. 4 . 
       FIG. 4  is a schematic of a computing environment  400  suitable for implementing real-time data statement monitoring and control over multiple data storage environments. As an option, one or more variations of computing environment  400  or any aspect thereof may be implemented in the context of the architecture and functionality of the embodiments described herein. The computing environment  400  or any aspect thereof may be implemented in any environment. 
     As shown in  FIG. 4 , computing environment  400  comprises one or more instances of client device  102  (e.g., a desktop computer, laptop computer, mobile phone, etc.), one or more instances of an application server  405 , and one or more instances of a distributed data file system  410 . The aforementioned devices, servers, and systems can communicate through a network  402  (e.g., a wireless network, a wide area network (WAN), a local area network (LAN), the Internet, an intranet, a private network, etc.). The shown architecture of distributed data file system  410  can facilitate storage and processing of large volumes of data (e.g., in an HDFS framework). 
     Specifically, the architecture of distributed data file system  410  comprises one or more instances of a client gateway node  412 , one or more instances of a primary name node  413 , one or more instances of a secondary name node  414 , one or more instances of a support server  415  (e.g., executing data analysis processes, etc.), and a plurality of data nodes (e.g., data node  416   1 , data node  416   2 , data node  416   3 , . . . , data node  416   N ). In some implementations, distributed data file system  410  can store large files of data physically distributed across multiple computing devices (e.g., the plurality of data nodes), rather than store the files entirely on a single computing device with a large amount of storage capacity. 
     To accommodate such distributed storage, the plurality of data nodes can be configured with one or more rack-mounted servers coupled (e.g., by SATA or SAS interconnects) to multiple solid-state drives (SSDs) and/or hard disk drives (HDDs) for storing the data. As an example, when a file is loaded into distributed data file system  410 , it is replicated and partitioned (e.g., sharded) into “blocks” of data, which are distributed and stored across the plurality of data nodes. The primary name node  413  is responsible for storage and management of metadata associated with the data and/or other entities associated with distributed data file system  410  such that, for example, the primary name node  413  can provide data location information for data processing operations. 
     Further, other configurations, partitions, and architectures of distributed data file system  410  shown in computing environment  400  are possible. For example, a single-node implementation may have all of the nodes (e.g., client gateway node  412 , primary name node  413 , the plurality of data nodes, etc.) reside on a single computing device. Also, a small cluster of two nodes may have a first computing device operate as a name node and a second computing device operate as a data node. Distributed data file system  410  can represent any database management system. 
     In one or more embodiments, the aforementioned devices, servers, and systems in computing environment  400  can be configured to implement techniques for real-time data statement monitoring and control over multiple data storage environments as described herein. As can be observed, certain components earlier described for implementing the herein disclosed techniques are mapped to client device  102  and distributed data file system  410  of computing environment  400 . More specifically, as shown, the client device  102  can store program instructions corresponding to the operations of client application  104  and/or user interface  106 . Further, client gateway node  412  can store program instructions corresponding to the operations of an instance of the data analytics engine (e.g., data analytics engine  122   K ) and an instance of the data statement management agent (e.g., data statement management agent  124   K ). Data statement management rules  144  can also be stored in a storage facility (e.g., one or more SSDs and/or HDDs) coupled to client gateway node  412 . The data storage environment distributed across the plurality of data nodes can be operated over by a query engine (e.g., query engine  112   M ) that communicates with a set of storage facilities comprising certain stored data (e.g., stored data  114   M ). 
     One embodiment of a data statement monitoring technique that can be implemented in the foregoing computing environment is shown and described as pertaining to  FIG. 5 . 
       FIG. 5  exemplifies a data statement monitoring technique  500  as implemented in systems that facilitate real-time data statement monitoring and control over multiple data storage environments. As an option, one or more variations of data statement monitoring technique  500  or any aspect thereof may be implemented in the context of the architecture and functionality of the embodiments described herein. The data statement monitoring technique  500  or any aspect thereof may be implemented in any environment. 
     The data statement monitoring technique  500  presents one embodiment of certain steps and/or operations for performing real-time monitoring of data statements issued to operate over multiple data storage domains, according to the herein disclosed techniques. Various illustrations are also shown to further describe the data statement monitoring technique  500 . 
     As shown, data statement monitoring technique  500  can commence by receiving a set of credentials from a data statement owner that issues data statements from a client device (step  502 ). As an example, the data statement owner credentials might comprise any combination of credentials from user  108  (e.g., username and password), credentials from client device  102  (e.g., unique device identifier), and/or other credentials associated with user  108  and/or client device  102  (e.g., enterprise identifier, client identifier, etc.). Using the data statement owner credentials, the data statement owner is authenticated and authorized to, for example, monitor certain data statements (step  504 ). Once authenticated and/or authorized, a channel is established to facilitate data statement monitoring at the client device (step  506 ). In some cases, establishing the channel for a particular data statement owner can, in turn, establish a unique data statement management session. For example, as depicted in session parameters  542 , an instance of such a data statement management session might be defined by a unique combination of a user identifier (e.g., “userID=uid108”) and a connection identifier (e.g., “connID=cid102”). 
     The session parameters can be used to access the data statement management rules associated with the data statement owner (step  512 ). As can be observed in the selected data shown in data statement management rule data  544   1 , the rule data associated with “userID=uid108” at “connID=cid102” indicates an interest in event types “e03” and “e07” from the “event” stream, and “all” of the event types from the “metadata” stream. As merely an example, event type “e03” might pertain to query status change events, while event type “e07” might pertain to query execution time estimate events. The event objects on an event bus are then monitored (step  514 ) to select event objects in accordance with the data statement management rules (step  516 ). For example, as shown in selected event object data  546 , the event objects recorded are of the types “e03” and “e07” in accordance with data statement management rule data  544   1 . 
     The data corresponding to the selected event objects is used to transform the selected event objects to event messages (step  522 ) that are presented in a user interface at the client device (step  524 ). For example, the selected event object data  546  can be used to generate event messages that are rendered in a data statement monitor view  548  included in a set of views  556  at user interface  106  of client device  102 . As illustrated, the data from event type “e07” of selected event object data  546  is transformed into a banner message in data statement monitor view  548  depicting an “Estimated Query Processing Time” of “04:23”. Further, the data from event type “e03” of selected event object data  546  is transformed into a query processing progress timeline in data statement monitor view  548 . 
     One embodiment of a data statement control technique for performing rule specification operations, data statement interaction operations, and/or other operations according to the herein disclosed techniques is presented and discussed as pertains to  FIG. 6 . 
       FIG. 6  illustrates a data statement control technique  600  as implemented in systems that facilitate real-time data statement monitoring and control over multiple data storage environments. As an option, one or more variations of data statement control technique  600  or any aspect thereof may be implemented in the context of the architecture and functionality of the embodiments described herein. The data statement control technique  600  or any aspect thereof may be implemented in any environment. 
     The data statement control technique  600  presents one embodiment of certain steps and/or operations for real-time control of data statements and/or other operations in accordance with the herein disclosed techniques. Various illustrations are also shown to further describe the data statement control technique  600 . 
     As shown, data statement control technique  600  can commence by authenticating and authorizing a data statement owner to manage data statements (e.g., specify data statement management rules, control data statements in real time, monitor data statements in real time, etc.) from a user interface at a client device (step  602 ). As depicted in the example illustrations, the data statement owner might be user  108  with access to user interface  106  at client device  102 . When the data statement owner is authenticated and authorized, a data statement management rule specification view can be presented as one of various views (e.g., views  556 ) in the user interface (e.g., user interface  106 ) to facilitate selection of certain data statement management rule parameters (step  604 ). 
     The example representation of a data statement management rule specification view  642  illustrates the data statement owner (e.g., user  108 ) has indicated an interest in monitoring “Processing Status Changes” events and “Estimated Time to Results” events. The data statement owner has also set a maximum query execution time limit (e.g., “Max Time Limit”) of “05:00” minutes. These user inputs submitted (e.g., by clicking the “Submit” button) from the data statement management rule specification view are stored as rule data associated with the data statement owner (step  606 ). For example, the selected data shown in data statement management rule data  544   2  depicts a set of rule data associated with a data statement owner identified by the combination of “userID=uid108” and “connID=cid102”. These rule data are derived from the selections in data statement management rule specification view  642 . Specifically, the “e03” event type monitoring rule is derived from the “Processing Status Changes” selection, the “e07” event type monitoring rule is derived from the “Estimated Time to Results” selection, and the “limit” key-value pair of “tmax=05:00” is derived from the “Max Time Limit” setting of “05:00” minutes. 
     According to the data statement control technique  600 , certain data statement control components might also be presented to a user at a user interface (step  612 ). For example, a “Cancel Query” button might be presented to user  108  at user interface  106  in a data statement monitor view with control components  648 . The user might click this button to invoke a control command to cancel the associated query. Such control commands invoked by user interactions with the data statement control components are received (step  614 ) and issued to effect one or more associated data statements (step  616 ). In certain embodiments, one or more control commands might be issued by one or more computing processes with no user interaction. In certain embodiments, the invoked control commands are transformed into respective event objects that are delivered to certain target data statement processing agents over an event bus. As an example, the “Cancel Query” action might be transformed to an event object of event type “e87” having “data” comprising the string “cancel” as indicated by the example instance of issued event object data  646  shown in  FIG. 6 . 
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       FIG. 7  depicts a system  700  as an arrangement of computing modules that are interconnected so as to operate cooperatively to implement certain of the herein-disclosed embodiments. This and other embodiments present particular arrangements of elements that, individually and/or as combined, serve to form improved technological processes that address missing or low-functionality data statement management capability pertaining to data statements issued to operate over multiple heterogeneous data storage environments. The partitioning of system  700  is merely illustrative and other partitions are possible. As an option, the system  700  may be implemented in the context of the architecture and functionality of the embodiments described herein. Of course, however, the system  700  or any operation therein may be carried out in any desired environment. The system  700  comprises at least one processor and at least one memory, the memory serving to store program instructions corresponding to the operations of the system. As shown, an operation can be implemented in whole or in part using program instructions accessible by a module. The modules are connected to a communication path  705 , and any operation can communicate with other operations over communication path  705 . The modules of the system can, individually or in combination, perform method operations within system  700 . Any operations performed within system  700  may be performed in any order unless as may be specified in the claims. The shown embodiment implements a portion of a computer system, presented as system  700 , comprising one or more computer processors to execute a set of program code instructions (module  710 ) and modules for accessing memory to hold program code instructions to perform: identifying a data statement processing layer that interfaces with at least one client application and one or more data storage environments, wherein the data statement processing layer processes one or more data statements issued by at least one data statement owner at the client application to operate over data in the data storage environments (module  720 ); accessing an event bus at the data statement processing layer, wherein the event bus transmits one or more event objects that describe one or more events that occur during data statement processing (module  730 ); applying one or more data statement management rules to at least one of the event objects to select at least one selected event object from the one or more event objects (module  740 ); transforming the selected event object into at least one event message (module  750 ); and delivering the event message to the client application (module  760 ). 
     Variations of the foregoing may include more or fewer of the shown modules. Certain variations may perform more or fewer (or different) steps, and/or certain variations may use data elements in more, or in fewer (or different) operations. 
     Still further, some embodiments include variations in the operations performed, and some embodiments include variations of aspects of the data elements used in the operations. 
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       FIG. 8A  depicts a block diagram of an instance of a computer system  8 A 00  suitable for implementing embodiments of the present disclosure. Computer system  8 A 00  includes a bus  806  or other communication mechanism for communicating information. The bus interconnects subsystems and devices such as a CPU, or a multi-core CPU (e.g., data processor  807 ), a system memory (e.g., main memory  808 , or an area of random access memory (RAM)), a non-volatile storage device or non-volatile storage area (e.g., read-only memory or ROM  809 ), an internal storage device  810  or external storage device  813  (e.g., magnetic or optical), a data interface  833 , a communications interface  814  (e.g., PHY, MAC, Ethernet interface, modem, etc.). The aforementioned components are shown within processing element partition  801 , however other partitions are possible. The shown computer system  8 A 00  further comprises a display  811  (e.g., CRT or LCD), various input devices  812  (e.g., keyboard, cursor control), and an external data repository  831 . 
     According to an embodiment of the disclosure, computer system  8 A 00  performs specific operations by data processor  807  executing one or more sequences of one or more program code instructions contained in a memory. Such instructions (e.g., program instructions  802   1 , program instructions  802   2 , program instructions  802   3 , etc.) can be contained in or can be read into a storage location or memory from any computer readable/usable medium such as a static storage device or a disk drive. The sequences can be organized to be accessed by one or more processing entities configured to execute a single process or configured to execute multiple concurrent processes to perform work. A processing entity can be hardware-based (e.g., involving one or more cores) or software-based, and/or can be formed using a combination of hardware and software that implements logic, and/or can carry out computations and/or processing steps using one or more processes and/or one or more tasks and/or one or more threads or any combination thereof. 
     According to an embodiment of the disclosure, computer system  8 A 00  performs specific networking operations using one or more instances of communications interface  814 . Instances of the communications interface  814  may comprise one or more networking ports that are configurable (e.g., pertaining to speed, protocol, physical layer characteristics, media access characteristics, etc.) and any particular instance of the communications interface  814  or port thereto can be configured differently from any other particular instance. Portions of a communication protocol can be carried out in whole or in part by any instance of the communications interface  814 , and data (e.g., packets, data structures, bit fields, etc.) can be positioned in storage locations within communications interface  814 , or within system memory, and such data can be accessed (e.g., using random access addressing, or using direct memory access DMA, etc.) by devices such as data processor  807 . 
     The communications link  815  can be configured to transmit (e.g., send, receive, signal, etc.) any types of communications packets (e.g., communications packets  838   1 , . . . , communications packets  838   N ) comprising any organization of data items. The data items can comprise a payload data area  837 , a destination address  836  (e.g., a destination IP address), a source address  835  (e.g., a source IP address), and can include various encodings or formatting of bit fields to populate the shown packet characteristics  834 . In some cases, the packet characteristics include a version identifier, a packet or payload length, a traffic class, a flow label, etc. In some cases, the payload data area  837  comprises a data structure that is encoded and/or formatted to fit into byte or word boundaries of the packet. 
     In some embodiments, hard-wired circuitry may be used in place of or in combination with software instructions to implement aspects of the disclosure. Thus, embodiments of the disclosure are not limited to any specific combination of hardware circuitry and/or software. In embodiments, the term “logic” shall mean any combination of software or hardware that is used to implement all or part of the disclosure. 
     The term “computer readable medium” or “computer usable medium” as used herein refers to any medium that participates in providing instructions to data processor  807  for execution. Such a medium may take many forms including, but not limited to, non-volatile media and volatile media. Non-volatile media includes, for example, optical or magnetic disks such as disk drives or tape drives. Volatile media includes dynamic memory such as a random access memory. 
     Common forms of computer readable media include, for example, floppy disk, flexible disk, hard disk, magnetic tape, or any other magnetic medium; CD-ROM or any other optical medium; punch cards, paper tape, or any other physical medium with patterns of holes; RAM, PROM, EPROM, FLASH-EPROM, or any other memory chip or cartridge, or any other non-transitory computer readable medium. Such data can be stored, for example, in any form of external data repository  831 , which in turn can be formatted into any one or more storage areas, and which can comprise parameterized storage  839  accessible by a key (e.g., filename, table name, block address, offset address, etc.). 
     Execution of the sequences of instructions to practice certain embodiments of the disclosure are performed by a single instance of the computer system  8 A 00 . According to certain embodiments of the disclosure, two or more instances of computer system  8 A 00  coupled by a communications link  815  (e.g., LAN, PTSN, or wireless network) may perform the sequence of instructions required to practice embodiments of the disclosure using two or more instances of components of computer system  8 A 00 . 
     The computer system  8 A 00  may transmit and receive messages such as data and/or instructions organized into a data structure (e.g., communications packets). The data structure can include program instructions (e.g., application code  803 ), communicated through communications link  815  and communications interface  814 . Received program code may be executed by data processor  807  as it is received and/or stored in the shown storage device or in or upon any other non-volatile storage for later execution. Computer system  8 A 00  may communicate through a data interface  833  to a database  832  on an external data repository  831 . Data items in a database can be accessed using a primary key (e.g., a relational database primary key). 
     The processing element partition  801  is merely one sample partition. Other partitions can include multiple data processors, and/or multiple communications interfaces, and/or multiple storage devices, etc. within a partition. For example, a partition can bound a multi-core processor (e.g., possibly including embedded or co-located memory), or a partition can bound a computing cluster having plurality of computing elements, any of which computing elements are connected directly or indirectly to a communications link. A first partition can be configured to communicate to a second partition. A particular first partition and particular second partition can be congruent (e.g., in a processing element array) or can be different (e.g., comprising disjoint sets of components). 
     A module as used herein can be implemented using any mix of any portions of the system memory and any extent of hard-wired circuitry including hard-wired circuitry embodied as a data processor  807 . Some embodiments include one or more special-purpose hardware components (e.g., power control, logic, sensors, transducers, etc.). A module may include one or more state machines and/or combinational logic used to implement or facilitate the operational and/or performance characteristics pertaining to data access authorization for dynamically generated database structures. 
     Various implementations of the database  832  comprise storage media organized to hold a series of records or files such that individual records or files are accessed using a name or key (e.g., a primary key or a combination of keys and/or data statement clauses). Such files or records can be organized into one or more data structures (e.g., data structures used to implement or facilitate aspects of data access authorization for dynamically generated database structures). Such files or records can be brought into and/or stored in volatile or non-volatile memory. 
       FIG. 8B  depicts a block diagram of an instance of a distributed data processing system  8 B 00  that may be included in a system implementing instances of the herein-disclosed embodiments. 
     Distributed data processing system  8 B 00  can include many more or fewer components than those shown. The distributed data processing system  8 B 00  can be used to store data, perform computational tasks, and/or transmit data between a plurality of data centers  840  (e.g., data center  840   1 , data center  840   2 , data center  840   3 , and data center  840   4 ). The distributed data processing system  8 B 00  can include any number of data centers. Some of the plurality of data centers  840  might be located geographically close to each other, while others might be located far from the other data centers. 
     The components of distributed data processing system  8 B 00  can communicate using dedicated optical links and/or other dedicated communication channels, and/or supporting hardware such as modems, bridges, routers, switches, wireless antennas, wireless towers, and/or other hardware components. In some embodiments, the component interconnections of the distributed data processing system  8 B 00  can include one or more wide area networks (WANs), one or more local area networks (LANs), and/or any combination of the foregoing networks. In certain embodiments, the component interconnections of the distributed data processing system  8 B 00  can comprise a private network designed and/or operated for use by a particular enterprise, company, customer, and/or other entity. In other embodiments, a public network might comprise a portion or all of the component interconnections of the distributed data processing system  8 B 00 . 
     In some embodiments, each data center can include multiple racks that each include frames and/or cabinets into which computing devices can be mounted. For example, as shown, data center  840   1  can include a plurality of racks (e.g., rack  844   1 , . . . , rack  844   N ), each comprising one or more computing devices. More specifically, rack  844   1  can include a first plurality of CPUs (e.g., CPU  846   11 , CPU  846   12 , . . . , CPU  846   1M ), and rack  844   N  can include an Nth plurality of CPUs (e.g., CPU  846   N1 , CPU  846   N2 , . . . , CPU  846   NM ). The plurality of CPUs can include data processors, network attached storage devices, and/or other computer controlled devices. In some embodiments, at least one of the plurality of CPUs can operate as a master processor, controlling certain aspects of the tasks performed throughout the distributed data processing system  8 B 00 . For example, such master processor control functions might pertain to scheduling, data distribution, and/or other processing operations associated with the tasks performed throughout the distributed data processing system  8 B 00 . In some embodiments, one or more of the plurality of CPUs may take on one or more roles, such as a master and/or a slave. One or more of the plurality of racks can further include storage (e.g., one or more network attached disks) that can be shared by one or more of the CPUs. 
     In some embodiments, the CPUs within a respective rack can be interconnected by a rack switch. For example, the CPUs in rack  844   1  can be interconnected by a rack switch  845   1 . As another example, the CPUs in rack  844   N  can be interconnected by a rack switch  845   N . Further, the plurality of racks within data center  840   1  can be interconnected by a data center switch  842 . The distributed data processing system  8 B 00  can be implemented using other arrangements and/or partitioning of multiple interconnected processors, racks, and/or switches. For example, in some embodiments, the plurality of CPUs can be replaced by a single large-scale multiprocessor. 
     In the foregoing specification, the disclosure has been described with reference to specific embodiments thereof. It will however be evident that various modifications and changes may be made thereto without departing from the broader spirit and scope of the disclosure. For example, the above-described process flows are described with reference to a particular ordering of process actions. However, the ordering of many of the described process actions may be changed without affecting the scope or operation of the disclosure. The specification and drawings are to be regarded in an illustrative sense rather than in a restrictive sense.