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Only Aggressive Elephants are Fast Elephants

Summary: HAIL extends HDFS upload to build per-block clustered indexes on every replica, enabling fast selective MapReduce access. Aggressive indexing yields up to 60% faster uploads (default three replicas) and up to 68x faster MapReduce queries, demonstrated across six large clusters. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
10395
Venue
VLDB
Year
2012
Pagerank
5.6868273e-05
Overall Rank
5,110 | 64.49%
DOI
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3,188 Scalable Big Graph Processing in MapReduce 2014 SIGMOD 7.4142307e-05
7,928 Indexing HDFS Data in PDW: Splitting the data from the index 2014 VLDB 4.6095647e-05
7,961 CARTILAGE: Adding Flexibility to the Hadoop Skeleton 2013 SIGMOD 4.6089395e-05
8,086 ScalaGiST: Scalable Generalized Search Trees for MapReduce Systems [Innovative Systems Paper] 2014 VLDB 4.5858883e-05
8,362 WWHow! Freeing Data Storage from Cages 2013 CIDR 4.531362e-05
9,360 Efficient Big Data Processing in Hadoop MapReduce 2012 VLDB 4.3476444e-05
12,079 Mosquito: Another One Bites the Data Upload STream 2013 VLDB 4.1905499e-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
42 A Comparison of Approaches to Large-Scale Data Analysis 2009 SIGMOD 0.00073570328
80 Weaving Relations for Cache Performance 2001 VLDB 0.00055735291
104 Making B+-Trees Cache Conscious in Main Memory 2000 SIGMOD 0.00049475932
662 Database Tuning Advisor for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 2004 VLDB 0.00018478597
789 Hadoop++: Making a Yellow Elephant Run Like a Cheetah (Without It Even Noticing) 2010 VLDB 0.00016602215
866 Profiling, What-if Analysis, and Cost-based Optimization of MapReduce Programs 2011 VLDB 0.00015771189
947 MRShare: Sharing Across Multiple Queries in MapReduce 2010 VLDB 0.00015112344
950 Runtime Measurements in the Cloud: Observing, Analyzing, and Reducing Variance 2010 VLDB 0.00015100872
962 A Comparison of Join Algorithms for Log Processing in MapReduce 2010 SIGMOD 0.00015003834
1,281 Automatic Optimization for MapReduce Programs 2011 VLDB 0.00012837411
1,615 The Performance of MapReduce: An In-depth Study 2010 VLDB 0.00011137225
1,945 Cheetah: A High Performance, Custom Data Warehouse on Top of MapReduce 2010 VLDB 0.0001000706
2,367 Here are my Data Files. Here are my Queries. Where are my Results? 2011 CIDR 8.9502761e-05
2,441 CoHadoop: Flexible Data Placement and Its Exploitation in Hadoop 2011 VLDB 8.8106295e-05
2,467 CoPhy: A Scalable, Portable, and Interactive Index Advisor for Large Workloads 2011 VLDB 8.7264908e-05
2,658 Data Warehousing and Analytics Infrastructure at Facebook 2010 SIGMOD 8.3634079e-05
3,077 Constrained Physical Design Tuning 2008 VLDB 7.6043371e-05
3,186 Energy Management for MapReduce Clusters 2010 VLDB 7.4218249e-05
3,193 Column-Oriented Storage Techniques for MapReduce 2011 VLDB 7.4073719e-05
9,356 A Framework for Supporting DBMS-like Indexes in the Cloud 2011 VLDB 4.3484059e-05
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