Avatara: OLAP for Web-scale Analytics Products
Summary: Web-scale OLAP for many small, user-centric cubes, shardable for scale. Avatara, deployed at LinkedIn, powers features like Who's Viewed My Profile, demonstrating scalable, fast analytics for 160M members. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Lili Wu (LinkedIn)
- 2. Roshan Sumbaly (LinkedIn)
- 3. Chris Riccomini (LinkedIn)
- 4. Gordon Koo (LinkedIn)
- 5. Hyung Jin Kim (LinkedIn)
- 6. Jay Kreps (LinkedIn)
- 7. Sam Shah (LinkedIn)
BibTeX Citation
@article{wu_vldb12,
title = {{Avatara: OLAP for Web-scale Analytics Products}},
author = {Wu, Lili and Sumbaly, Roshan and Riccomini, Chris and Koo, Gordon and Kim, Hyung Jin and Kreps, Jay and Shah, Sam},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '12},
volume = {5},
number = {12},
pages = {1874--1885},
doi = {10.14778/2367502.2367525},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2367502.2367525},
year = {2012}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,606 | Mesa: Geo-Replicated, Near Real-Time, Scalable Data Warehousing | 2014 | VLDB | 0.00010228354 |
| 4,230 | Pinot: Realtime OLAP for 530 Million Users | 2018 | SIGMOD | 6.8176983e-05 |
| 4,595 | The "Big Data" Ecosystem at LinkedIn | 2013 | SIGMOD | 6.6136121e-05 |
| 8,017 | Data Management for Social Networking | 2016 | PODS | 5.5063729e-05 |
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Showing 1 of 1 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47 | PNUTS: Yahoo!'s Hosted Data Serving Platform | 2008 | VLDB | 0.00044502263 |
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