Unified Data Analytics: State-of-the-art and Open Problems

Summary: Taxonomy of unifying data analytics across prep, analytics, and ML pipelines, clarifying why multi-platform scripts hinder productivity. Survey of Beam and Wayang; contrasts design choices and outlines open problems for unified analytics. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 12887
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2022
Pagerank: 4.3177432e-05
Overall Rank: 9,608 | 33.16%
DOI: 10.14778/3554821.3554898

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Authors

1. Zoi Kaoudi
2. Jorge-Arnulfo Quiané-Ruiz

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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9,473	Apache Wayang in Action: Enabling Data Systems Integration via a Unified Data Analytics Framework	2025	SIGMOD	4.3341665e-05
10,591	Accio: Bolt-on Query Federation	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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557	SystemML: Declarative Machine Learning on Spark	2016	VLDB	0.00020197988
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2,419	Towards a One Size Fits All Database Architecture	2011	CIDR	8.853712e-05
3,034	How to Fit when No One Size Fits	2013	CIDR	7.6752083e-05
3,265	RHEEM: Enabling Cross-Platform Data Processing - May The Big Data Be With You! -	2018	VLDB	7.3083672e-05
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3,710	Optimizing Analytic Data Flows for Multiple Execution Engines	2012	SIGMOD	6.8238962e-05
3,982	The Myria Big Data Management and Analytics System and Cloud Service	2017	CIDR	6.5651188e-05
5,402	Towards Scalable Hybrid Stores: Constraint-Based Rewriting to the Rescue	2019	SIGMOD	5.5278023e-05
6,986	A Cost-based Optimizer for Gradient Descent Optimization	2017	SIGMOD	4.8727048e-05
7,557	Invisible Glue: Scalable Self-Tuning Multi-Stores	2015	CIDR	4.7112819e-05
7,958	CARTILAGE: Adding Flexibility to the Hadoop Skeleton	2013	SIGMOD	4.613363e-05
8,366	WWHow! Freeing Data Storage from Cages	2013	CIDR	4.5357016e-05
9,008	Hybrid Row-Column Partitioning in Teradata	2016	VLDB	4.4100992e-05
9,810	Rheem: Enabling Multi-Platform Task Execution	2016	SIGMOD	4.278405e-05

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