Comparative Evaluation of Big-Data Systems on Scientific Image Analytics Workloads
Summary: First cross-system, large-scale image analytics evaluation on real scientific workloads across SciDB, Myria, Spark, Dask, TensorFlow. Reveals shortcomings affecting implementation and performance, outlining directions for efficiency and usability. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Parmita Mehta (University of Washington)
- 2. Sven Dorkenwald (University of Washington)
- 3. Dongfang Zhao (University of Washington)
- 4. Tomer Kaftan (University of Washington)
- 5. Alvin Cheung (University of Washington)
- 6. Magdalena Balazinska (University of Washington)
- 7. Ariel Rokem (University of Washington)
- 8. Andrew Connolly (University of Washington)
- 9. Jacob Vanderplas (University of Washington)
- 10. Yusra AlSayyad (University of Washington)
BibTeX Citation
@article{mehta_vldb17,
title = {{Comparative Evaluation of Big-Data Systems on Scientific Image Analytics Workloads}},
author = {Mehta, Parmita and Dorkenwald, Sven and Zhao, Dongfang and Kaftan, Tomer and Cheung, Alvin and Balazinska, Magdalena and Rokem, Ariel and Connolly, Andrew and Vanderplas, Jacob and AlSayyad, Yusra},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '17},
volume = {10},
number = {11},
pages = {1226--1237},
doi = {10.14778/3137628.3137634},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3137628.3137634},
year = {2017}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,847 | AIDA - Abstraction for Advanced In-Database Analytics | 2018 | VLDB | 8.0583142e-05 |
| 3,459 | A Comparative Evaluation of Systems for Scalable Linear Algebra-based Analytics | 2018 | VLDB | 7.3953716e-05 |
| 3,618 | The Myria Big Data Management and Analytics System and Cloud Service | 2017 | CIDR | 7.2523695e-05 |
| 7,961 | Array DBMS: Past, Present, and (Near) Future | 2021 | VLDB | 5.5181056e-05 |
| 11,389 | Toward Efficient Homomorphic Encryption for Outsourced Databases through Parallel Caching | 2023 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
| 11,606 | SimDB in Action: Road Traffic Simulations Completely Inside Array DBMS | 2022 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 11,687 | Convergence of Array DBMS and Cellular Automata: A Road Traffic Simulation Case | 2021 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 9 of 9 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 44 | A Comparison of Approaches to Large-Scale Data Analysis | 2009 | SIGMOD | 0.00046055057 |
| 239 | Overview of SciDB: Large Scale Array Storage, Processing and Analysis | 2010 | SIGMOD | 0.00023674329 |
| 923 | Starfish: A Self-tuning System for Big Data Analytics | 2011 | CIDR | 0.00013189886 |
| 1,070 | NoDB: Efficient Query Execution on Raw Data Files | 2012 | SIGMOD | 0.0001232307 |
| 2,389 | Parallel Data Analysis Directly on Scientific File Formats | 2014 | SIGMOD | 8.6439053e-05 |
| 2,804 | Demonstration of the Myria Big Data Management Service | 2014 | SIGMOD | 8.1075524e-05 |
| 2,949 | GenBase: A Complex Analytics Genomics Benchmark | 2014 | SIGMOD | 7.9281519e-05 |
| 3,618 | The Myria Big Data Management and Analytics System and Cloud Service | 2017 | CIDR | 7.2523695e-05 |
| 4,208 | Clash of the Titans: MapReduce vs. Spark for Large Scale Data Analytics | 2015 | VLDB | 6.8319812e-05 |
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