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Slalom: Coasting Through Raw Data via Adaptive Partitioning and Indexing

Summary: Slalom adaptively partitions raw files and builds lightweight, partition-specific indexes online by monitoring shifting query access patterns. Its in-situ engine cuts cumulative workload time and memory use, achieving 3–10× gains over prior systems and near-DBMS latency. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
11585
Venue
VLDB
Year
2017
Pagerank
7.4326381e-05
Overall Rank
3,413 | 76.59%
DOI
10.14778/3115404.3115410

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BibTeX Citation

@article{olma_vldb17,
        title = {{Slalom: Coasting Through Raw Data via Adaptive Partitioning and Indexing}},
        author = {Olma, Matthaios and Karpathiotakis, Manos and Alagiannis, Ioannis and Athanassoulis, Manos and Ailamaki, Anastasia},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '17},
        volume = {10},
        number = {10},
        pages = {1106--1117},
        doi = {10.14778/3115404.3115410},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3115404.3115410},
        year = {2017}
}

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51 Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets 2010 VLDB 0.0004291425
156 An Efficient, Cost-Driven Index Selection Tool for Microsoft SQL Server 1997 VLDB 0.00028636811
184 DB2 Design Advisor: Integrated Automatic Physical Database Design 2004 VLDB 0.00026256101
199 Integrating Vertical and Horizontal Partitioning into Automated Physical Database Design 2004 SIGMOD 0.00025612088
227 Small Materialized Aggregates: A Light Weight Index Structure for Data Warehousing 1998 VLDB 0.00023958508
259 Database Cracking 2007 CIDR 0.00023119313
330 Impala: A Modern, Open-Source SQL Engine for Hadoop 2015 CIDR 0.0002104801
428 HYRISE—A Main Memory Hybrid Storage Engine 2011 VLDB 0.00018633493
501 Database Tuning Advisor for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 2004 VLDB 0.0001738508
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1,054 Interactive Analytical Processing in Big Data Systems: A Cross-Industry Study of MapReduce Workloads 2012 VLDB 0.00012390673
1,070 NoDB: Efficient Query Execution on Raw Data Files 2012 SIGMOD 0.0001232307
1,126 Adaptive Range Filters for Cold Data: Avoiding Trips to Siberia 2013 VLDB 0.00012078607
1,492 BF-Tree: Approximate Tree Indexing 2014 VLDB 0.00010588267
1,507 Column Imprints: A Secondary Index Structure 2013 SIGMOD 0.0001054177
1,679 Self-organizing Tuple Reconstruction in Column-stores 2009 SIGMOD 0.00010029136
1,739 Split Query Processing in Polybase 2013 SIGMOD 9.8814935e-05
1,811 Merging What's Cracked, Cracking What's Merged: Adaptive Indexing in Main-Memory Column-Stores 2011 VLDB 9.698026e-05
1,903 Instant Loading for Main Memory Databases 2013 VLDB 9.5049156e-05
1,927 Here are my Data Files. Here are my Queries. Where are my Results? 2011 CIDR 9.4703074e-05
2,378 The Uncracked Pieces in Database Cracking 2014 VLDB 8.6682285e-05
2,389 Parallel Data Analysis Directly on Scientific File Formats 2014 SIGMOD 8.6439053e-05
2,435 Parallel In-Situ Data Processing with Speculative Loading 2014 SIGMOD 8.5811022e-05
3,062 Adaptive Query Processing on RAW Data 2014 VLDB 7.8037446e-05
3,638 Fast Queries Over Heterogeneous Data Through Engine Customization 2016 VLDB 7.2338361e-05
3,830 Stochastic Database Cracking: Towards Robust Adaptive Indexing in Main-Memory Column-Stores 2012 VLDB 7.0877801e-05
4,826 Design Tradeoffs of Data Access Methods 2016 SIGMOD 6.4904836e-05
4,988 UpBit: Scalable In-Memory Updatable Bitmap Indexing 2016 SIGMOD 6.4107392e-05
5,039 Holistic Indexing in Main-memory Column-stores 2015 SIGMOD 6.3909067e-05
6,181 Just-In-Time Data Virtualization: Lightweight Data Management with ViDa 2015 CIDR 5.9494838e-05
8,014 Indexing HDFS Data in PDW: Splitting the data from the index 2014 VLDB 5.5073329e-05
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