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A Comparison of Approaches to Large-Scale Data Analysis

Summary: Compare MapReduce with parallel DBMSs for large-scale data analysis, tying MR to decades of parallel-SQL work. A 100-node benchmark finds DBMSs load/tune longer but run faster than MR; discusses causes and future-system implications. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
4179
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2009
Pagerank
0.00046055057
Overall Rank
44 | 99.70%
DOI
10.1145/1559845.1559865

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{pavlo_sigmod09,
        title = {{A Comparison of Approaches to Large-Scale Data Analysis}},
        author = {Pavlo, Andrew and Paulson, Erik and Rasin, Alexander and Abadi, Daniel J. and DeWitt, David J. and Madden, Samuel and Stonebraker, Michael},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '09},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1559845.1559865},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1559845.1559865},
        year = {2009}
}

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