Tenzing A SQL Implementation On The MapReduce Framework

Summary: Tenzing is a SQL engine on MapReduce for ad hoc analytics over 1.5PB, with a mostly complete SQL dialect. Benchmarks and Google-scale deployment validate performance, reliability, metadata awareness, and extensibility. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 10195
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2011
Pagerank: 0.00015408131
Overall Rank: 913 | 93.66%
DOI: -

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2,611	Opening the Black Boxes in Data Flow Optimization	2012	VLDB	8.4536967e-05
2,674	Minimal MapReduce Algorithms	2013	SIGMOD	8.3328645e-05
3,066	HAWQ: A Massively Parallel Processing SQL Engine in Hadoop	2014	SIGMOD	7.6221974e-05
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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
70	Hive - A Warehousing Solution Over a Map-Reduce Framework	2009	VLDB	0.00059533166
109	Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets	2010	VLDB	0.00048186983
157	HadoopDB: An Architectural Hybrid of MapReduce and DBMS Technologies for Analytical Workloads	2009	VLDB	0.00040397359
960	A Comparison of Join Algorithms for Log Processing in MapReduce	2010	SIGMOD	0.00015012242
1,355	SQL/MapReduce: A practical approach to self-describing, polymorphic, and parallelizable user-defined functions	2009	VLDB	0.00012404572

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