Saving Money for Analytical Workloads in the Cloud

Summary: Exploit differences in cloud billing (compute-time vs bytes-scanned) by classifying analytical queries as compute- or IO-bound and selecting execution modalities that minimize monetary cost while meeting user runtime constraints. Implement cost-aware plan generation that mixes pricing models (and clouds), yielding up to 56% workload and 90% per-query savings and robust gains across vendor price variations. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 13561
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2024
Pagerank: 4.2721228e-05
Overall Rank: 9,848 | 31.49%
DOI: 10.14778/3681954.3682018

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Tapan Srivastava
2. Raul Castro Fernandez

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10,852	CloudGlide: Deconstructing the Landscape of Cloud-Based Analytics	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 20 of 20 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
18	On Random Sampling over Joins	1999	SIGMOD	0.00092385438
66	Spark SQL: Relational Data Processing in Spark	2015	SIGMOD	0.00061639801
71	How Good Are Query Optimizers, Really?	2016	VLDB	0.00059038975
167	The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse	2016	SIGMOD	0.00039180521
442	Semantic Data Caching and Replacement	1996	VLDB	0.000230437
544	Apache Calcite: A Foundational Framework for Optimized Query Processing Over Heterogeneous Data Sources	2018	SIGMOD	0.00020521965
659	The Making of TPC-DS	2006	VLDB	0.00018500853
758	Deep Unsupervised Cardinality Estimation	2020	VLDB	0.0001706608
981	DynaMat: A Dynamic View Management System for Data Warehouses	1999	SIGMOD	0.00014879532
1,284	Amazon Redshift Re-invented	2022	SIGMOD	0.00012837822
1,630	Garlic: A New Flavor of Federated Query Processing for DB2	2002	SIGMOD	0.0001108111
2,545	POLARIS: The Distributed SQL Engine in Azure Synapse	2020	VLDB	8.5725413e-05
2,568	Towards Cost-Optimal Query Processing in the Cloud	2021	VLDB	8.5239227e-05
3,583	A Formal Perspective on the View Selection Problem	2001	VLDB	6.9463532e-05
3,668	The LDBC Social Network Benchmark: Business Intelligence Workload	2023	VLDB	6.8591612e-05
3,753	Choosing A Cloud DBMS: Architectures and Tradeoffs	2019	VLDB	6.7871241e-05
6,049	POP/FED: Progressive Query Optimization for Federated Queries in DB2	2006	VLDB	5.2360942e-05
6,149	Crystal: A Unified Cache Storage System for Analytical Databases	2021	VLDB	5.1847534e-05
6,740	Combining Aggregation and Sampling (Nearly) Optimally for Approximate Query Processing	2021	SIGMOD	4.944395e-05
8,854	Optimizing the cloud? Don't train models. Build oracles!	2024	CIDR	4.4349047e-05

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