Tutorial: SQL-on-Hadoop Systems

Summary: Tutorial survey of SQL-on-Hadoop architectures for declarative querying across HDFS and NoSQL sources. Compares storage, optimization, indexing, updates, flexible schemas, and complex types, highlighting open research challenges. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 11306
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2015
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 12,146 | 16.67%
DOI: 10.14778/2824032.2824085

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Authors

1. Daniel Abadi (Yale University)
2. Shivnath Babu (Duke University)
3. Fatma Ozcan (IBM)
4. Ippokratis Pandis (Cloudera)

BibTeX Citation

@article{abadi_vldb15,
        title = {{Tutorial: SQL-on-Hadoop Systems}},
        author = {Abadi, Daniel and Babu, Shivnath and Ozcan, Fatma and Pandis, Ippokratis},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '15},
        volume = {8},
        number = {12},
        pages = {2050--2053},
        doi = {10.14778/2824032.2824085},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2824032.2824085},
        year = {2015}
}

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,312	Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing: A Survey	2017	SIGMOD	0.00011193166
3,819	Evolving Databases for New-Gen Big Data Applications	2017	CIDR	7.0974401e-05
13,428	Reflections On My Data Management Research Journey (VLDB Women in Database Research Award Talk)	2022	VLDB	-

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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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
24	Spark SQL: Relational Data Processing in Spark	2015	SIGMOD	0.00054865648
120	HadoopDB: An Architectural Hybrid of MapReduce and DBMS Technologies for Analytical Workloads	2009	VLDB	0.00031680027
330	Impala: A Modern, Open-Source SQL Engine for Hadoop	2015	CIDR	0.0002104801
425	Shark: SQL and Rich Analytics at Scale	2013	SIGMOD	0.00018704491
1,738	Sinew: A SQL System for Multi-Structured Data	2014	SIGMOD	9.8823494e-05
2,021	WinMagic : Subquery Elimination Using Window Aggregation	2003	SIGMOD	9.297379e-05
2,159	Efficient Processing of Data Warehousing Queries in a Split Execution Environment	2011	SIGMOD	9.061086e-05
2,850	HAWQ: A Massively Parallel Processing SQL Engine in Hadoop	2014	SIGMOD	8.0499212e-05
3,885	Apache Tez: A Unifying Framework for Modeling and Building Data Processing Applications	2015	SIGMOD	7.0475239e-05

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