Tupleware: "Big" Data, Big Analytics, Small Clusters

Summary: Targets analytics on small clusters (few–dozen nodes) with compute‑intensive, sub‑petabyte workloads rather than cloud‑scale. Compiles workflows of UDFs using database+compiler techniques into highly optimized distributed programs, reporting up to 1000× speedups. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 265
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2015
Pagerank: 9.1819738e-05
Overall Rank: 2,094 | 85.64%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Andrew Crotty (Brown University)
2. Alex Galakatos (Brown University)
3. Kayhan Dursun (Brown University)
4. Tim Kraska (Brown University)
5. Ugur Cetintemel (Brown University)
6. Stan Zdonik (Brown University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{crotty_cidr15,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '15},
        title = {{Tupleware: "Big" Data, Big Analytics, Small Clusters}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Crotty, Andrew and Galakatos, Alex and Dursun, Kayhan and Kraska, Tim and Cetintemel, Ugur and Zdonik, Stan},
        year = {2015}
}

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1,379	Relaxed Operator Fusion for In-Memory Databases: Making Compilation, Vectorization, and Prefetching Work Together At Last	2018	VLDB	0.00010970894
1,469	Voodoo - A Vector Algebra for Portable Database Performance on Modern Hardware	2016	VLDB	0.00010678751
1,797	How to Architect a Query Compiler	2016	SIGMOD	9.7368925e-05
2,050	Vizdom: Interactive Analytics through Pen and Touch	2015	VLDB	9.2546631e-05
3,205	On Optimizing Operator Fusion Plans for Large-Scale Machine Learning in SystemML	2018	VLDB	7.6386536e-05
4,049	Resource Elasticity for Large-Scale Machine Learning	2015	SIGMOD	6.9369379e-05
5,947	Revisiting Reuse in Main Memory Database Systems	2017	SIGMOD	6.0323707e-05
6,076	Self-Organizing Data Containers	2022	CIDR	5.9852895e-05
6,263	Database Technology for the Masses: Sub-Operators as First-Class Entities	2021	VLDB	5.936052e-05
6,349	Grizzly: Efficient Stream Processing Through Adaptive Query Compilation	2020	SIGMOD	5.9049304e-05
6,504	What Makes a Good Physical Plan? — Experiencing Hardware-Conscious Query Optimization with Candomble	2016	SIGMOD	5.8585206e-05
7,311	Lachesis: Automatic Partitioning for UDF-Centric Analytics	2021	VLDB	5.6491618e-05
7,774	Building Advanced SQL Analytics From Low-Level Plan Operators	2021	SIGMOD	5.5468469e-05
9,572	PlinyCompute: A Platform for High-Performance, Distributed, Data-Intensive Tool Development	2018	SIGMOD	5.2528121e-05
9,917	The UDFBench Benchmark for General-purpose UDF Queries	2025	VLDB	5.1955087e-05
9,986	Thriving in the No Man’s Land between Compilers and Databases	2019	CIDR	5.1832796e-05
10,072	Query Compilation Without Regrets	2024	SIGMOD	5.1624689e-05
10,740	UDFBench: A Tool for Benchmarking UDF Queries on SQL Engines	2025	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
11,964	Demonstrating the BigDAWG Polystore System for Ocean Metagenomic Analysis	2017	CIDR	5.093636e-05
12,148	Databases and Hardware: The Beginning and Sequel of a Beautiful Friendship	2015	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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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
12	C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS	2005	VLDB	0.00069513174
30	SCOPE: Easy and Efficient Parallel Processing of Massive Data Sets	2008	VLDB	0.00051174276
372	HaLoop: Efficient Iterative Data Processing on Large Clusters	2010	VLDB	0.0001981521
534	Building Efficient Query Engines in a High-Level Language	2014	VLDB	0.00017046514
771	Conjunctive Selection Conditions in Main Memory	2002	PODS	0.00014161995
872	Tenzing: A SQL Implementation On The MapReduce Framework	2011	VLDB	0.00013486409
1,054	Interactive Analytical Processing in Big Data Systems: A Cross-Industry Study of MapReduce Workloads	2012	VLDB	0.00012390673
1,150	DimmWitted: A Study of Main-Memory Statistical Analytics	2014	VLDB	0.00011943462
4,633	Parallel SQL Execution in Oracle 10g	2004	SIGMOD	6.5931076e-05
4,778	ASTERIX: An Open Source System for "Big Data" Management and Analysis (Demo)	2012	VLDB	6.5133529e-05
5,189	Performance Analysis of a Relational Data Base Management System	1979	SIGMOD	6.3272576e-05

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