Advanced Partitioning Techniques for Massively Distributed Computation

Summary: Advanced partitioning strategies for massively distributed computation, reducing shuffling bottlenecks. Integrated in Microsoft Scope, these strategies optimize repartitioning operator placement, yielding notable real-world performance gains. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4508
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2012
Pagerank: 6.483587e-05
Overall Rank: 4,061 | 71.75%
DOI: -

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1,477	Fine-grained Partitioning for Aggressive Data Skipping	2014	SIGMOD	0.00011770865
1,611	Qd-tree: Learning Data Layouts for Big Data Analytics	2020	SIGMOD	0.00011147324
3,737	Skipping-oriented Partitioning for Columnar Layouts	2017	VLDB	6.8033227e-05
6,261	The Cosmos Big Data Platform at Microsoft: Over a Decade of Progress and a Decade to Look Forward	2021	VLDB	5.1350714e-05
6,757	KEA: Tuning an Exabyte-Scale Data Infrastructure	2021	SIGMOD	4.9372134e-05
7,112	Wide Table Layout Optimization based on Column Ordering and Duplication	2017	SIGMOD	4.8275068e-05
7,128	Jigsaw: A Data Storage and Query Processing Engine for Irregular Table Partitioning	2021	SIGMOD	4.8230171e-05
7,476	Lachesis: Automatic Partitioning for UDF-Centric Analytics	2021	VLDB	4.7188928e-05
7,778	Runtime Variation in Big Data Analytics	2023	SIGMOD	4.653651e-05
8,002	Pangea: Monolithic Distributed Storage for Data Analytics	2019	VLDB	4.6088289e-05
9,330	Parallel Query Processing: To Separate Communication from Computation	2022	SIGMOD	4.3556432e-05
11,159	Distributed Consistency Beyond Queries	2023	PODS	4.1945683e-05
11,976	Anti-Combining for MapReduce	2014	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

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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
1	Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System	1979	SIGMOD	0.0040449103
3	Pig Latin: A Not-So-Foreign Language for Data Processing	2008	SIGMOD	0.0024183614
22	SCOPE: Easy and Efficient Parallel Processing of Massive Data Sets	2008	VLDB	0.0008456613
109	Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets	2010	VLDB	0.00048186983
113	Encapsulation of Parallelism in the Volcano Query Processing System	1990	SIGMOD	0.00046764513
907	Fundamental Techniques for Order Optimization	1996	SIGMOD	0.00015435983
913	Tenzing A SQL Implementation On The MapReduce Framework	2011	VLDB	0.00015408131
1,265	Jaql: A Scripting Language for Large Scale Semistructured Data Analysis	2011	VLDB	0.00012947629
2,999	A Combined Framework for Grouping and Order Optimization	2004	VLDB	7.752797e-05
4,339	Avoiding Sorting and Grouping In Processing Queries	2003	VLDB	6.2769193e-05

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