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: 13075
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2022
Pagerank: 5.227679e-05
Overall Rank: 9,742 | 33.17%
DOI: 10.14778/3554821.3554898

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Zoi Kaoudi (Technical University of Berlin)
2. Jorge-Arnulfo Quiané-Ruiz (Technical University of Berlin)

BibTeX Citation

@article{kaoudi_vldb22,
        title = {{Unified Data Analytics: State-of-the-art and Open Problems}},
        author = {Kaoudi, Zoi and Quiané-Ruiz, Jorge-Arnulfo},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '22},
        volume = {15},
        number = {12},
        pages = {3778--3781},
        doi = {10.14778/3554821.3554898},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3554821.3554898},
        year = {2022}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
9,620	Apache Wayang in Action: Enabling Data Systems Integration via a Unified Data Analytics Framework	2025	SIGMOD	5.2434488e-05
10,852	Accio: Bolt-on Query Federation	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 16 of 16 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
415	SystemML: Declarative Machine Learning on Spark	2016	VLDB	0.0001888524
457	Don’t Scrap It, Wrap It! A Wrapper Architecture for Legacy Data Sources	1997	VLDB	0.00018120468
1,229	Weld: A Common Runtime for High Performance Data Analytics	2017	CIDR	0.00011578425
1,854	Towards a One Size Fits All Database Architecture	2011	CIDR	9.6069414e-05
3,202	How to Fit when No One Size Fits	2013	CIDR	7.6409287e-05
3,275	Optimizing Analytic Data Flows for Multiple Execution Engines	2012	SIGMOD	7.5747814e-05
3,295	Lightning Fast and Space Efficient Inequality Joins	2015	VLDB	7.5477715e-05
3,351	RHEEM: Enabling Cross-Platform Data Processing - May The Big Data Be With You! -	2018	VLDB	7.4937347e-05
3,618	The Myria Big Data Management and Analytics System and Cloud Service	2017	CIDR	7.2523695e-05
4,968	Towards Scalable Hybrid Stores: Constraint-Based Rewriting to the Rescue	2019	SIGMOD	6.4206525e-05
7,000	A Cost-based Optimizer for Gradient Descent Optimization	2017	SIGMOD	5.7287645e-05
7,428	Invisible Glue: Scalable Self-Tuning Multi-Stores	2015	CIDR	5.6205394e-05
8,276	CARTILAGE: Adding Flexibility to the Hadoop Skeleton	2013	SIGMOD	5.4574671e-05
8,347	WWHow! Freeing Data Storage from Cages	2013	CIDR	5.4472422e-05
9,159	Hybrid Row-Column Partitioning in Teradata	2016	VLDB	5.3114559e-05
9,983	Rheem: Enabling Multi-Platform Task Execution	2016	SIGMOD	5.1844786e-05

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