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The Performance of MapReduce: An In-depth Study

Summary: In-depth performance study of Hadoop MapReduce on a 100-node EC2 cluster; identifies five design factors shaping throughput. Tuning these factors yields 2.5–3.5x gains, narrowing the gap with parallel DBs and enabling economical elastic cloud processing. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
10020
Venue
VLDB
Year
2010
Pagerank
0.00011132319
Overall Rank
1,615 | 88.77%
DOI
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868 Profiling, What-if Analysis, and Cost-based Optimization of MapReduce Programs 2011 VLDB 0.00015789681
1,071 Starfish: A Self-tuning System for Big Data Analytics 2011 CIDR 0.00014312777
1,534 PerfXplain: Debugging MapReduce Job Performance 2012 VLDB 0.00011468393
1,800 epiC: an Extensible and Scalable System for Processing Big Data 2014 VLDB 0.00010512649
1,931 Efficient Processing of k Nearest Neighbor Joins using MapReduce 2012 VLDB 0.00010040427
2,439 CoHadoop: Flexible Data Placement and Its Exploitation in Hadoop 2011 VLDB 8.8190594e-05
2,476 A Platform for Scalable One-Pass Analytics using MapReduce 2011 SIGMOD 8.6960139e-05
3,062 Efficient Multi-way Theta-Join Processing Using MapReduce 2012 VLDB 7.6343994e-05
3,066 HAWQ: A Massively Parallel Processing SQL Engine in Hadoop 2014 SIGMOD 7.6221974e-05
3,115 Llama: Leveraging Columnar Storage for Scalable Join Processing in the MapReduce Framework 2011 SIGMOD 7.543505e-05
3,208 Column-Oriented Storage Techniques for MapReduce 2011 VLDB 7.3781897e-05
3,710 Optimizing Analytic Data Flows for Multiple Execution Engines 2012 SIGMOD 6.8238962e-05
5,105 Only Aggressive Elephants are Fast Elephants 2012 VLDB 5.694494e-05
5,903 Building Wavelet Histograms on Large Data in MapReduce 2012 VLDB 5.2791351e-05
6,173 Exploiting Soft and Hard Correlations in Big Data Query Optimization 2016 VLDB 5.1699414e-05
6,268 Speedup Your Analytics: Automatic Parameter Tuning for Databases and Big Data Systems 2019 VLDB 5.133857e-05
8,084 ScalaGiST: Scalable Generalized Search Trees for MapReduce Systems [Innovative Systems Paper] 2014 VLDB 4.5902866e-05
8,464 Piranha: Optimizing Short Jobs in Hadoop 2013 VLDB 4.5052127e-05
9,375 Efficient Big Data Processing in Hadoop MapReduce 2012 VLDB 4.347384e-05
11,694 An Experimental Evaluation of Garbage Collectors on Big Data Applications 2019 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
11,987 DGFIndex for Smart Grid: Enhancing Hive with a Cost-Effective Multidimensional Range Index 2014 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
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Showing 9 of 9 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
3 Pig Latin: A Not-So-Foreign Language for Data Processing 2008 SIGMOD 0.0024183614
15 Map-Reduce-Merge: Simplified Relational Data Processing on Large Clusters 2007 SIGMOD 0.0010654262
22 SCOPE: Easy and Efficient Parallel Processing of Massive Data Sets 2008 VLDB 0.0008456613
42 A Comparison of Approaches to Large-Scale Data Analysis 2009 SIGMOD 0.00073498298
70 Hive - A Warehousing Solution Over a Map-Reduce Framework 2009 VLDB 0.00059533166
157 HadoopDB: An Architectural Hybrid of MapReduce and DBMS Technologies for Analytical Workloads 2009 VLDB 0.00040397359
710 Performance Tradeoffs in Read-Optimized Databases 2006 VLDB 0.00017765454
2,208 Clustera: An Integrated Computation And Data Management System 2008 VLDB 9.2873257e-05
3,764 Read-Optimized Databases, In Depth 2008 VLDB 6.7797554e-05
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