Slalom: Coasting Through Raw Data via Adaptive Partitioning and Indexing

Summary: Slalom enables in-situ processing with online partitioning and per-partition indexes guided by lightweight access-pattern monitoring. Its adaptive partitioning and indexing tailor layouts to workload shifts, yielding 3-10x faster queries than prior in-situ engines and DBMS-like latency on unpredictable access. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11397
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 6.659442e-05
Overall Rank: 3,891 | 72.94%
DOI: -

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286	Integrating Vertical and Horizontal Partitioning into Automated Physical Database Design	2004	SIGMOD	0.00028990057
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408	Database Cracking	2007	CIDR	0.00023953844
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596	HYRISE—A Main Memory Hybrid Storage Engine	2011	VLDB	0.00019481482
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