Stethoscope: A Platform for Interactive Visual Analysis of Query Execution Plans

Summary: Stethoscope interactively visualizes columnar-query execution plans as animated, large data-flow graphs enriched with runtime traces. It supports online/offline bottleneck analysis via state coloring, filtering, tooltips, and debugging—even for plans exceeding 1,000 nodes. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 10625
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2012
Pagerank: 7.3774551e-05
Overall Rank: 3,478 | 76.14%
DOI: 10.14778/2367502.2367564

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Authors

1. Martin Kersten (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica)
2. Mrunal Gawade (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica)

BibTeX Citation

@article{kersten_vldb12,
        title = {{Stethoscope: A Platform for Interactive Visual Analysis of Query Execution Plans}},
        author = {Kersten, Martin and Gawade, Mrunal},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '12},
        volume = {5},
        number = {12},
        pages = {1926--1929},
        doi = {10.14778/2367502.2367564},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2367502.2367564},
        year = {2012}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,878	VQA: Vertica Query Analyzer	2014	SIGMOD	7.0511953e-05
6,056	QE3D: Interactive Visualization and Exploration of Complex, Distributed Query Plans	2015	SIGMOD	5.9925637e-05
12,067	JexLog: A Sonar for the Abyss	2016	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank

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