Hyperspace: The Indexing Subsystem of Azure Synapse

Summary: Hyperspace is Azure Synapse's indexing subsystem, supporting multiple secondary index types and query acceleration without app changes. It provides concurrency control, index-aware processing, and online maintenance, achieving strong practical speedups. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 12511
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2021
Pagerank: 4.4520434e-05
Overall Rank: 8,754 | 39.16%
DOI: 10.14778/3476311.3476382

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10,617	LogCloud: Fast Search of Compressed Logs on Object Storage	2025	VLDB	4.1905499e-05

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2	R-Trees: A Dynamic Index Structure For Spatial Searching	1984	SIGMOD	0.0032118946
20	C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS	2005	VLDB	0.00086163998
66	Spark SQL: Relational Data Processing in Spark	2015	SIGMOD	0.00061707583
70	Hive - A Warehousing Solution Over a Map-Reduce Framework	2009	VLDB	0.00059744625
121	Improved Query Performance with Variant Indexes	1997	SIGMOD	0.00045429472
237	An Efficient, Cost-Driven Index Selection Tool for Microsoft SQL Server	1997	VLDB	0.00031727601
367	Small Materialized Aggregates: A Light Weight Index Structure for Data Warehousing	1998	VLDB	0.00025518228
517	AutoAdmin "What-if" Index Analysis Utility	1998	SIGMOD	0.00021193179
739	Delta Lake: High-Performance ACID Table Storage over Cloud Object Stores	2020	VLDB	0.00017365933
866	Profiling, What-if Analysis, and Cost-based Optimization of MapReduce Programs	2011	VLDB	0.00015771189
1,921	Selecting Subexpressions to Materialize at Datacenter Scale	2018	VLDB	0.00010085899
2,022	Magic mirror in my hand, which is the best in the land? An Experimental Evaluation of Index Selection Algorithms	2020	VLDB	9.7623022e-05
2,542	POLARIS: The Distributed SQL Engine in Azure Synapse	2020	VLDB	8.5681631e-05
3,044	Azure Data Lake Store: A Hyperscale Distributed File Service for Big Data Analytics	2017	SIGMOD	7.6624689e-05
3,270	RHEEM: Enabling Cross-Platform Data Processing - May The Big Data Be With You! -	2018	VLDB	7.3013196e-05
3,551	Chi: A Scalable and Programmable Control Plane for Distributed Stream Processing Systems	2018	VLDB	6.9776252e-05
3,923	Pushing Data-Induced Predicates Through Joins in Big-Data Clusters	2020	VLDB	6.6232068e-05
4,171	Computation Reuse in Analytics Job Service at Microsoft	2018	SIGMOD	6.3800823e-05
4,226	Hyper Dimension Shuffle: Efficient Data Repartition at Petabyte Scale in SCOPE	2019	VLDB	6.3382156e-05
5,116	AdaptDB: Adaptive Partitioning for Distributed Joins	2017	VLDB	5.6805476e-05
6,241	Helios: Hyperscale Indexing for the Cloud & Edge	2020	VLDB	5.1357476e-05
7,035	Building the Enterprise Fabric for Big Data with Vertica and Spark Integration	2016	SIGMOD	4.8503423e-05
9,517	[Demo] Low-latency Spark Queries on Updatable Data	2019	SIGMOD	4.3294347e-05

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