PIQL: A Performance Insightful Query Language
Summary: PIQL targets web-scale workloads by layering a declarative query language over distributed key-value stores. It expresses common website queries with guaranteed I/O bounds, delivering predictable performance and reducing the need for onerous explicit indexing and imperative lookups. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Michael Armbrust
- 2. Stephen Tu
- 3. Armando Fox
- 4. Michael J. Franklin
- 5. David A. Patterson
- 6. Nick Lanham
- 7. Beth Trushkowsky
- 8. Jesse Trutna
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 94 | CrowdDB: Answering Queries with Crowdsourcing | 2011 | SIGMOD | 0.00051273089 |
| 11,677 | Block as a Value for SQL over NoSQL | 2019 | VLDB | 4.1905499e-05 |
| 11,793 | BEAS: Bounded Evaluation of SQL Queries | 2017 | SIGMOD | 4.1905499e-05 |
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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 |
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| 1,706 | SCADS: Scale-Independent Storage for Social Computing Applications | 2009 | CIDR | 0.00010806188 |
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