POLARIS: The Distributed SQL Engine in Azure Synapse
Summary: Polaris re-architects Azure Synapse’s SQL DW engine for cloud-native separation of compute and state, unifying relational and big-data workloads. Its cell abstraction, fine-grained scheduling, partial restarts, and retained T-SQL/SQL Server compatibility enable elastic PB-scale execution. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Josep Aguilar-Saborit (Microsoft)
- 2. Raghu Ramakrishnan (Microsoft)
- 3. Krish Srinivasan (Microsoft)
- 4. Kevin Bocksrocker (Microsoft)
- 5. Ioannis Alagiannis (Microsoft)
- 6. Mahadevan Sankara (Microsoft)
- 7. Moe Shafiei (Microsoft)
- 8. Jose Blakeley (Microsoft)
- 9. Girish Dasarathy (Microsoft)
- 10. Sumeet Dash (Microsoft)
- 11. Lazar Davidovic (Microsoft)
- 12. Maja Damjanic (Microsoft)
- 13. Slobodan Djunic (Microsoft)
- 14. Nemanja Djurkic (Microsoft)
- 15. Charles Feddersen (Microsoft)
- 16. Cesar Galindo-Legaria (Microsoft)
- 17. Alan Halverson (Microsoft)
- 18. Milana Kovacevic (Microsoft)
- 19. Nikola Kicovic (Microsoft)
- 20. Goran Lukic (Microsoft)
- 21. Djordje Maksimovic (Microsoft)
- 22. Ana Manic (Microsoft)
- 23. Nikola Markovic (Microsoft)
- 24. Bosko Mihic (Microsoft)
- 25. Ugljesa Milic (Microsoft)
- 26. Marko Milojevic (Microsoft)
- 27. Tapas Nayak (Microsoft)
- 28. Milan Potocnik (Microsoft)
- 29. Milos Radic (Microsoft)
- 30. Bozidar Radivojevic (Microsoft)
- 31. Srikumar Rangarajan (Microsoft)
- 32. Milan Ruzic (Microsoft)
- 33. Milan Simic (Microsoft)
- 34. Marko Sosic (Microsoft)
- 35. Igor Stanko (Microsoft)
- 36. Maja Stikic (Microsoft)
- 37. Sasa Stanojkov (Microsoft)
- 38. Vukasin Stefanovic (Microsoft)
- 39. Milos Sukovic (Microsoft)
- 40. Aleksandar Tomic (Microsoft)
- 41. Dragan Tomic (Microsoft)
- 42. Steve Toscano (Microsoft)
- 43. Djordje Trifunovic (Microsoft)
- 44. Veljko Vasic (Microsoft)
- 45. Tomer Verona (Microsoft)
- 46. Aleksandar Vujic (Microsoft)
- 47. Nikola Vujic (Microsoft)
- 48. Marko Vukovic (Microsoft)
- 49. Marko Zivanovic (Microsoft)
BibTeX Citation
@article{aguilarsaborit_vldb20,
title = {{POLARIS: The Distributed SQL Engine in Azure Synapse}},
author = {Aguilar-Saborit, Josep and Ramakrishnan, Raghu and Srinivasan, Krish and Bocksrocker, Kevin and Alagiannis, Ioannis and Sankara, Mahadevan and Shafiei, Moe and Blakeley, Jose and Dasarathy, Girish and Dash, Sumeet and Davidovic, Lazar and Damjanic, Maja and Djunic, Slobodan and Djurkic, Nemanja and Feddersen, Charles and Galindo-Legaria, Cesar and Halverson, Alan and Kovacevic, Milana and Kicovic, Nikola and Lukic, Goran and Maksimovic, Djordje and Manic, Ana and Markovic, Nikola and Mihic, Bosko and Milic, Ugljesa and Milojevic, Marko and Nayak, Tapas and Potocnik, Milan and Radic, Milos and Radivojevic, Bozidar and Rangarajan, Srikumar and Ruzic, Milan and Simic, Milan and Sosic, Marko and Stanko, Igor and Stikic, Maja and Stanojkov, Sasa and Stefanovic, Vukasin and Sukovic, Milos and Tomic, Aleksandar and Tomic, Dragan and Toscano, Steve and Trifunovic, Djordje and Vasic, Veljko and Verona, Tomer and Vujic, Aleksandar and Vujic, Nikola and Vukovic, Marko and Zivanovic, Marko},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '20},
volume = {13},
number = {12},
pages = {3204--3216},
doi = {10.14778/3415478.3415545},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3415478.3415545},
year = {2020}
}
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