Thoth in Action: Memory Management in Modern Data Analytics

Summary: Thoth in Action studies memory management in modern data analytics using a data-driven, multi-system platform. It shows cross-layer dynamics from resource managers (Mesos/Yarn) and containers to JVM pools (heap/off-heap, Young/Old gen) and framework caches, enabling multi-tenant memory management with Thoth. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11673
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 5.1844786e-05
Overall Rank: 9,982 | 31.52%
DOI: 10.14778/3137765.3137808

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Mayuresh Kunjir (Duke University)
2. Shivnath Babu (Duke University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{kunjir_vldb17,
        title = {{Thoth in Action: Memory Management in Modern Data Analytics}},
        author = {Kunjir, Mayuresh and Babu, Shivnath},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '17},
        volume = {10},
        number = {12},
        pages = {1917},
        doi = {10.14778/3137765.3137808},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3137765.3137808},
        year = {2017}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,686	Black or White? How to Develop an AutoTuner for Memory-based Analytics	2020	SIGMOD	0.00010008686
2,888	AI Meets Database: AI4DB and DB4AI	2021	SIGMOD	7.9941489e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
7,673	ROBUS: Fair Cache Allocation for Data-parallel Workloads	2017	SIGMOD	5.5705944e-05
12,199	Thoth: Towards Managing a Multi-System Cluster	2014	VLDB	5.093636e-05

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