Evaluating Query Languages and Systems for High-Energy Physics Data

Summary: Six general-purpose data platforms evaluated on an HEP benchmark show wide variance in expressing HEP queries; SQL-like languages are often awkward for HEP patterns. Most platforms are 10–100× slower than the domain-specific HEP system, signaling substantial work to achieve relevance. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 12659
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2022
Pagerank: 4.3008468e-05
Overall Rank: 9,702 | 32.51%
DOI: 10.14778/3489496.3489498

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