Evaluating Query Languages and Systems for High-Energy Physics Data
Summary: Benchmarks six general-purpose query systems on HEP workloads, exposing wide variation in language naturalness and concision. Most run 10–100× slower than the physicists’ domain-specific tool, showing databases remain promising but not yet competitive. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Dan Graur (ETH Zurich)
- 2. Ingo Müller (ETH Zurich)
- 3. Mason Proffitt (University of Washington)
- 4. Ghislain Fourny (ETH Zurich)
- 5. Gordon T. Watts (University of Washington)
- 6. Gustavo Alonso (ETH Zurich)
BibTeX Citation
@article{graur_vldb22,
title = {{Evaluating Query Languages and Systems for High-Energy Physics Data}},
author = {Graur, Dan and Müller, Ingo and Proffitt, Mason and Fourny, Ghislain and Watts, Gordon T. and Alonso, Gustavo},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '22},
volume = {15},
number = {2},
pages = {154--168},
doi = {10.14778/3489496.3489498},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3489496.3489498},
year = {2022}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 9,913 | Adaptive data transformations for QaaS | 2025 | CIDR | 5.1955087e-05 |
| 10,057 | AnyBlox: A Framework for Self-Decoding Datasets | 2025 | VLDB | 5.1664022e-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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | Spark SQL: Relational Data Processing in Spark | 2015 | SIGMOD | 0.00054865648 |
| 34 | The Design Of Postgres | 1986 | SIGMOD | 0.00049302774 |
| 51 | Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets | 2010 | VLDB | 0.0004291425 |
| 66 | The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse | 2016 | SIGMOD | 0.00038561587 |
| 73 | Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases | 2017 | SIGMOD | 0.00037333356 |
| 1,015 | AsterixDB: A Scalable, Open Source BDMS | 2014 | VLDB | 0.00012647763 |
| 3,062 | Adaptive Query Processing on RAW Data | 2014 | VLDB | 7.8037446e-05 |
| 5,546 | Critical Database Technologies for High Energy Physics | 1997 | VLDB | 6.1794414e-05 |
| 8,387 | Rumble: Data Independence for Large Messy Data Sets | 2021 | VLDB | 5.4364932e-05 |
| 9,022 | Petabyte Databases | 1999 | SIGMOD | 5.3305021e-05 |
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