Online Expansion of Large-scale Data Warehouses
Summary: Greenplum’s online expansion grows 100s-of-TB warehouses without dump/reload downtime, using transactionally consistent primitives for efficient data movement. Priorities and schedules provide workload-aware control, with quantified effects on concurrent queries. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Jeffrey Cohen (EMC Corporation)
- 2. John Eshleman (EMC Corporation)
- 3. Brian Hagenbuch (EMC Corporation)
- 4. Joy Kent (EMC Corporation)
- 5. Christopher Pedrotti (EMC Corporation)
- 6. Gavin Sherry (EMC Corporation)
- 7. Florian Waas (EMC Corporation)
BibTeX Citation
@article{cohen_vldb11,
title = {{Online Expansion of Large-scale Data Warehouses}},
author = {Cohen, Jeffrey and Eshleman, John and Hagenbuch, Brian and Kent, Joy and Pedrotti, Christopher and Sherry, Gavin and Waas, Florian},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '11},
volume = {4},
number = {12},
pages = {1249--1260},
doi = {10.14778/3402755.3402759},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3402755.3402759},
year = {2011}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,606 | Mesa: Geo-Replicated, Near Real-Time, Scalable Data Warehousing | 2014 | VLDB | 0.00010228576 |
| 5,487 | Remus: Efficient Live Migration for Distributed Databases with Snapshot Isolation | 2022 | SIGMOD | 6.2006149e-05 |
| 8,490 | FusionInsight LibrA: Huawei’s Enterprise Cloud Data Analytics Platform | 2018 | VLDB | 5.4152314e-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 |
| 155 | MAD Skills: New Analysis Practices for Big Data | 2009 | VLDB | 0.00028713176 |
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