Dolphin: Alibaba's Hyper‑Converged Multi‑Modal Big Data Engine Overview
Dolphin, Alibaba’s hyper‑converged multi‑modal big‑data engine, unifies OLAP, AI, streaming, and batch workloads on a decoupled compute‑storage MPP foundation, offering a Dolphin SQL layer, advanced bitmap/GroupTable/AFile indexes, intelligent materialization, and one‑write‑multiple‑read storage that cuts costs over 70% while delivering sub‑millisecond queries on trillion‑row datasets.