Efficiently executing commands at external computing services

One or more computer-readable storage media having instructions stored thereon, wherein the instructions, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to:

• identifying, at a data-processing system, a set of commands in a query to process at an external computing service, wherein the external computing service is separate from the data-processing system that receives the query to search for events in a data store, wherein each event includes a portion of raw machine data that reflects activity in an information technology environment that is produced by a component of that information technology environment;
• for each command in the set of commands, identifying at least one compute unit including at least one operation to perform at the external computing service;
• analyzing each of the at least one compute unit associated with each command to identify a manner in which to execute the set of commands at the external computing service to reduce memory consumption or improve execution time, the manner being identified based on information accessible via the data-processing system and inaccessible to the external computing service;
• and
• providing, to the external computing service, an indication of the manner in which to execute the set of commands and a corresponding set of data to utilize for executing the set of commands at the external computing service.

A computing system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• a memory coupled with the one or more processors, the memory having instructions stored thereon, wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the computing device to:
• identify, at a data-processing system, a set of commands in a query to process at an external computing service, wherein the external computing service is separate from the data-processing system that receives the query to search for events in a data store, wherein each event includes a portion of raw machine data that reflects activity in an information technology environment that is produced by a component of that information technology environment;
• for each command in the set of commands, identify at least one compute unit including at least one operation to perform at the external computing service;
• analyze each of the at least one compute unit associated with each command to identify a manner in which to execute the set of commands at the external computing service to reduce memory consumption or improve execution time, the manner being identified based on information accessible via the data-processing system and inaccessible to the external computing service;
• and
• provide, to the external computing service, an indication of the manner in which to execute the set of commands and a corresponding set of data to utilize for executing the set of commands at the external computing service.