Fast Attribution Engine (FAE): High‑Performance Distributed Computing for User Behavior and Advertising Attribution
FAE, Alibaba’s high‑performance distributed MPP engine, stores billions of user‑behavior events in a time‑ordered AFile model and uses stateless masters, importers, mergers and workers with Redis and MySQL metadata to deliver sub‑second, 10‑100× faster ad‑attribution queries across ad‑hoc, offline and near‑real‑time scenarios such as frequency, path and funnel analysis.