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POLARIS: The Distributed SQL Engine in Azure Synapse

Summary: Polaris re-architects Azure Synapse SQL DW to converge warehousing and big data, with compute-state separation and a novel cell data abstraction. It enables fine-grained scheduling, partial restarts, and PB-scale, T-SQL–compatible execution, shown by a 1PB 22-TPC-H run (>100TB). (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
12204
Venue
VLDB
Year
2020
Pagerank
8.5681631e-05
Overall Rank
2,542 | 82.34%
DOI
10.14778/3415478.3415545

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8,357 Cackle: Analytical Workload Cost and Performance Stability With Elastic Pools 2023 SIGMOD 4.5325029e-05
8,517 Extending Polaris to Support Transactions 2024 SIGMOD 4.4897788e-05
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22 SCOPE: Easy and Efficient Parallel Processing of Massive Data Sets 2008 VLDB 0.00084679526
66 Spark SQL: Relational Data Processing in Spark 2015 SIGMOD 0.00061707583
109 Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets 2010 VLDB 0.00048217028
167 The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse 2016 SIGMOD 0.00039408116
424 Amazon Redshift and the Case for Simpler Data Warehouses 2015 SIGMOD 0.00023604384
476 Impala: A Modern, Open-Source SQL Engine for Hadoop 2015 CIDR 0.00022216002
914 Socrates: The New SQL Server in the Cloud 2019 SIGMOD 0.00015370799
2,244 Query Optimization in Microsoft SQL Server PDW 2012 SIGMOD 9.2095696e-05
2,458 Multi-dimensional Resource Scheduling for Parallel Queries 1996 SIGMOD 8.7601979e-05
3,044 Azure Data Lake Store: A Hyperscale Distributed File Service for Big Data Analytics 2017 SIGMOD 7.6624689e-05
3,129 Parallel Query Scheduling and Optimization with Time- and Space-Shared Resources 1997 VLDB 7.5132501e-05
3,795 Schema-Agnostic Indexing with Azure DocumentDB 2015 VLDB 6.7555427e-05
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