Tuplex: Robust, Efficient Analytics When Python Rules

Summary: Tuplex is a Python-native data-preparation engine that treats exceptions as first-class values, making pipelines robust to messy raw data without Spark’s impedance mismatch. It compiles applicable Python code to achieve near bare-metal performance. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 12098
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2019
Pagerank: 5.2082931e-05
Overall Rank: 9,856 | 32.38%
DOI: 10.14778/3352063.3352109

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Leonhard F. Spiegelberg (Brown University)
2. Tim Kraska (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

BibTeX Citation

@article{spiegelberg_vldb19,
        title = {{Tuplex: Robust, Efficient Analytics When Python Rules}},
        author = {Spiegelberg, Leonhard F. and Kraska, Tim},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '19},
        volume = {12},
        number = {12},
        pages = {1958--1961},
        doi = {10.14778/3352063.3352109},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3352063.3352109},
        year = {2019}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
9,415	The Key to Effective UDF Optimization: Before Inlining, First Perform Outlining	2025	VLDB	5.2742285e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
23	Efficiently Compiling Efficient Query Plans for Modern Hardware	2011	VLDB	0.00054886415
24	Spark SQL: Relational Data Processing in Spark	2015	SIGMOD	0.00054865648
1,442	An Architecture for Compiling UDF-centric Workflows	2015	VLDB	0.00010778486
2,391	Mison: A Fast JSON Parser for Data Analytics	2017	VLDB	8.6413407e-05

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