Big Data Research: Will Industry Solve all the Problems?

Summary: A retrospective on Nuage, CQMS, Myria, Data Pricing, and SciDB argues that industry innovation will not exhaust big-data challenges in processing, analytics, usability, and operations. It articulates a continuing, complementary role for academic systems research. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 11308
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2015
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 12,147 | 16.67%
DOI: 10.14778/2824032.2824089

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Authors

1. Magdalena Balazinska (University of Washington)

BibTeX Citation

@article{balazinska_vldb15,
        title = {{Big Data Research: Will Industry Solve all the Problems?}},
        author = {Balazinska, Magdalena},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '15},
        volume = {8},
        number = {12},
        pages = {2053--2056},
        doi = {10.14778/2824032.2824089},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2824032.2824089},
        year = {2015}
}

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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
120	HadoopDB: An Architectural Hybrid of MapReduce and DBMS Technologies for Analytical Workloads	2009	VLDB	0.00031680027
372	HaLoop: Efficient Iterative Data Processing on Large Clusters	2010	VLDB	0.0001981521
846	SnipSuggest: Context-Aware Autocompletion for SQL	2011	VLDB	0.00013658824
1,319	SkewTune: Mitigating Skew in MapReduce Applications	2012	SIGMOD	0.00011175005
1,320	From Theory to Practice: Efficient Join Query Evaluation in a Parallel Database System	2015	SIGMOD	0.00011166426
1,665	ParaTimer: A Progress Indicator for MapReduce DAGs	2010	SIGMOD	0.00010069173
1,694	PerfXplain: Debugging MapReduce Job Performance	2012	VLDB	9.9953156e-05
1,742	ArrayStore: A Storage Manager for Complex Parallel Array Processing	2011	SIGMOD	9.8748669e-05
2,622	A Latency and Fault-Tolerance Optimizer for Online Parallel Query Plans	2011	SIGMOD	8.3330136e-05
3,635	Changing the Face of Database Cloud Services with Personalized Service Level Agreements	2015	CIDR	7.2343405e-05
3,827	Automatic Enforcement of Data Use Policies with DataLawyer	2015	SIGMOD	7.0909359e-05
4,078	Asynchronous and Fault-Tolerant Recursive Datalog Evaluation in Shared-Nothing Engines	2015	VLDB	6.9209348e-05

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