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Hadoop++: Making a Yellow Elephant Run Like a Cheetah (Without It Even Noticing)

Summary: Hadoop++ transparently accelerates Hadoop by injecting indexing and join optimizations through UDFs, without modifying its framework or interface. It substantially outperforms Hadoop and HadoopDB while remaining compatible with future Hadoop changes. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
10292
Venue
VLDB
Year
2010
Pagerank
0.00015198804
Overall Rank
660 | 95.48%
DOI
10.14778/1920841.1920908

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BibTeX Citation

@article{dittrich_vldb10,
        title = {{Hadoop++: Making a Yellow Elephant Run Like a Cheetah (Without It Even Noticing)}},
        author = {Dittrich, Jens and Kargin, Yagiz and Quiané-Ruiz, Jorge-Arnulfo and Setty, Vinay and Jindal, Alekh and Schad, Jörg},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '10},
        volume = {3},
        number = {1},
        pages = {518--529},
        doi = {10.14778/1920841.1920908},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1920841.1920908},
        year = {2010}
}

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735 Profiling, What-if Analysis, and Cost-based Optimization of MapReduce Programs 2011 VLDB 0.00014522606
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1,257 Automatic Optimization for MapReduce Programs 2011 VLDB 0.000114432
1,319 SkewTune: Mitigating Skew in MapReduce Applications 2012 SIGMOD 0.00011175005
1,694 PerfXplain: Debugging MapReduce Job Performance 2012 VLDB 9.9953156e-05
2,159 Efficient Processing of Data Warehousing Queries in a Split Execution Environment 2011 SIGMOD 9.061086e-05
2,287 TriAD: A Distributed Shared-Nothing RDF Engine based on Asynchronous Message Passing 2014 SIGMOD 8.8034872e-05
2,539 Minimal MapReduce Algorithms 2013 SIGMOD 8.4526595e-05
2,642 CoHadoop: Flexible Data Placement and Its Exploitation in Hadoop 2011 VLDB 8.3059948e-05
2,849 Column-Oriented Storage Techniques for MapReduce 2011 VLDB 8.053191e-05
2,887 Efficient Multi-way Theta-Join Processing Using MapReduce 2012 VLDB 7.9952432e-05
2,942 Llama: Leveraging Columnar Storage for Scalable Join Processing in the MapReduce Framework 2011 SIGMOD 7.9358593e-05
3,008 Scalable Big Graph Processing in MapReduce 2014 SIGMOD 7.8578871e-05
3,275 Optimizing Analytic Data Flows for Multiple Execution Engines 2012 SIGMOD 7.5747814e-05
3,295 Lightning Fast and Space Efficient Inequality Joins 2015 VLDB 7.5477715e-05
3,964 Hyper Dimension Shuffle: Efficient Data Repartition at Petabyte Scale in SCOPE 2019 VLDB 6.9855158e-05
4,169 The Unified Logging Infrastructure for Data Analytics at Twitter 2012 VLDB 6.8561463e-05
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5,039 Holistic Indexing in Main-memory Column-stores 2015 SIGMOD 6.3909067e-05
5,156 Only Aggressive Elephants are Fast Elephants 2012 VLDB 6.3410921e-05
5,522 Building Wavelet Histograms on Large Data in MapReduce 2012 VLDB 6.1871697e-05
6,044 Exploiting Soft and Hard Correlations in Big Data Query Optimization 2016 VLDB 5.995949e-05
6,199 Clydesdale: Structured Data Processing on Hadoop 2012 SIGMOD 5.9458654e-05
6,312 A Hadoop Based Distributed Loading Approach to Parallel Data Warehouses 2011 SIGMOD 5.9170938e-05
7,311 Lachesis: Automatic Partitioning for UDF-Centric Analytics 2021 VLDB 5.6491618e-05
7,780 Petabyte-Scale Row-Level Operations in Data Lakehouses 2024 VLDB 5.5457298e-05
7,990 ScalaGiST: Scalable Generalized Search Trees for MapReduce Systems [Innovative Systems Paper] 2014 VLDB 5.5107935e-05
8,001 Pangea: Monolithic Distributed Storage for Data Analytics 2019 VLDB 5.508791e-05
8,014 Indexing HDFS Data in PDW: Splitting the data from the index 2014 VLDB 5.5073329e-05
8,276 CARTILAGE: Adding Flexibility to the Hadoop Skeleton 2013 SIGMOD 5.4574671e-05
8,455 Piranha: Optimizing Short Jobs in Hadoop 2013 VLDB 5.4226e-05
9,497 Rank Join Queries in NoSQL Databases 2014 VLDB 5.2608378e-05
9,510 Efficient Big Data Processing in Hadoop MapReduce 2012 VLDB 5.2576928e-05
12,185 DGFIndex for Smart Grid: Enhancing Hive with a Cost-Effective Multidimensional Range Index 2014 VLDB 5.093636e-05
12,225 D-Hive: Data Bees Pollinating RDF, Text, and Time 2013 CIDR 5.093636e-05
12,227 How Achaeans Would Construct Columns in Troy 2013 CIDR 5.093636e-05
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
6 Pig Latin: A Not-So-Foreign Language for Data Processing 2008 SIGMOD 0.0010686205
30 SCOPE: Easy and Efficient Parallel Processing of Massive Data Sets 2008 VLDB 0.00051174276
32 Hive - A Warehousing Solution Over a Map-Reduce Framework 2009 VLDB 0.00050111008
44 A Comparison of Approaches to Large-Scale Data Analysis 2009 SIGMOD 0.00046055057
72 Map-Reduce-Merge: Simplified Relational Data Processing on Large Clusters 2007 SIGMOD 0.00037695852
120 HadoopDB: An Architectural Hybrid of MapReduce and DBMS Technologies for Analytical Workloads 2009 VLDB 0.00031680027
155 MAD Skills: New Analysis Practices for Big Data 2009 VLDB 0.00028713176
204 Cache Conscious Indexing for Decision-Support in Main Memory 1999 VLDB 0.00025342994
642 Building a High-Level Dataflow System on top of Map-Reduce: The Pig Experience 2009 VLDB 0.00015395331
895 Runtime Measurements in the Cloud: Observing, Analyzing, and Reducing Variance 2010 VLDB 0.00013357681
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