Clash of the Titans: MapReduce vs. Spark for Large Scale Data Analytics
Summary: Profiling-driven, architecture-level comparison of MapReduce and Spark across shuffle, execution model, and caching, with tools linking task plans to resource use. Spark is ~2.5x–5x faster on WordCount, k-means, and PageRank; gains from hash-based aggregation and RDD caching, while MapReduce wins Sort via shuffle efficiency. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Juwei Shi
- 2. Yunjie Qiu
- 3. Umar Farooq Minhas
- 4. Limei Jiao
- 5. Chen Wang
- 6. Berthold Reinwald
- 7. Fatma Ozcan
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,348 | Comparative Evaluation of Big-Data Systems on Scientific Image Analytics Workloads | 2017 | VLDB | 7.1897861e-05 |
| 5,803 | Lifetime-Based Memory Management for Distributed Data Processing Systems | 2016 | VLDB | 5.3208219e-05 |
| 7,459 | Lachesis: Automatic Partitioning for UDF-Centric Analytics | 2021 | VLDB | 4.7199075e-05 |
| 9,337 | PlinyCompute: A Platform for High-Performance, Distributed, Data-Intensive Tool Development | 2018 | SIGMOD | 4.351469e-05 |
| 11,430 | Accelerating Complex Analytics using Speculation | 2021 | CIDR | 4.1905499e-05 |
| 11,699 | An Experimental Evaluation of Garbage Collectors on Big Data Applications | 2019 | VLDB | 4.1905499e-05 |
| 11,810 | Query-able Kafka: An agile data analytics pipeline for mobile wireless networks | 2017 | VLDB | 4.1905499e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Pregel: A System for Large-Scale Graph Processing | 2010 | SIGMOD | 0.0019040811 |
| 866 | Profiling, What-if Analysis, and Cost-based Optimization of MapReduce Programs | 2011 | VLDB | 0.00015771189 |
| 7,298 | MRTuner: A Toolkit to Enable Holistic Optimization for MapReduce Jobs | 2014 | VLDB | 4.7651301e-05 |
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