Automated Partitioning Design in Parallel Database Systems

Summary: Proposes a partitioning advisor for MPPs to cut data movement by choosing replication vs distribution. Integrates partitioning advice with the optimizer for faster, more accurate plans; evaluated on SQL Server PDW with real and synthetic workloads. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4525
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2011
Pagerank: 9.6134443e-05
Overall Rank: 1,852 | 87.30%
DOI: 10.1145/1989323.1989444

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Rimma Nehme (Microsoft)
2. Nicolas Bruno (Microsoft)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{nehme_sigmod11,
        title = {{Automated Partitioning Design in Parallel Database Systems}},
        author = {Nehme, Rimma and Bruno, Nicolas},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '11},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1989323.1989444},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1989323.1989444},
        year = {2011}
}

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471	Skew-Aware Automatic Database Partitioning in Shared-Nothing, Parallel OLTP Systems	2012	SIGMOD	0.0001793564
1,320	From Theory to Practice: Efficient Join Query Evaluation in a Parallel Database System	2015	SIGMOD	0.00011166426
2,078	Query Optimization in Microsoft SQL Server PDW	2012	SIGMOD	9.2078209e-05
2,363	Clay: Fine-Grained Adaptive Partitioning for General Database Schemas	2017	VLDB	8.6873235e-05
2,499	Learning a Partitioning Advisor for Cloud Databases	2020	SIGMOD	8.4993549e-05
3,035	Instance-Optimized Data Layouts for Cloud Analytics Workloads	2021	SIGMOD	7.8297746e-05
3,200	Locality-aware Partitioning in Parallel Database Systems	2015	SIGMOD	7.642132e-05
3,367	Native Store Extension for SAP HANA	2019	VLDB	7.4718829e-05
3,586	Make Your Database System Dream of Electric Sheep: Towards Self-Driving Operation	2021	VLDB	7.2834069e-05
4,096	Parallel Analytics as a Service	2013	SIGMOD	6.9057396e-05
4,456	AdaptDB: Adaptive Partitioning for Distributed Joins	2017	VLDB	6.692321e-05
4,468	One Model to Rule them All: Towards Zero-Shot Learning for Databases	2022	CIDR	6.6819041e-05
5,497	JECB: a Join-Extension, Code-Based Approach to OLTP Data Partitioning	2014	SIGMOD	6.1973614e-05
6,121	The Cosmos Big Data Platform at Microsoft: Over a Decade of Progress and a Decade to Look Forward	2021	VLDB	5.9688569e-05
6,279	Fast and Effective Distribution-Key Recommendation for Amazon Redshift	2020	VLDB	5.9286872e-05
6,848	Jigsaw: A Data Storage and Query Processing Engine for Irregular Table Partitioning	2021	SIGMOD	5.7550624e-05
7,311	Lachesis: Automatic Partitioning for UDF-Centric Analytics	2021	VLDB	5.6491618e-05
7,822	Resource Bricolage for Parallel Database Systems	2015	VLDB	5.5371287e-05
9,953	Amoeba: A Shape changing Storage System for Big Data	2016	VLDB	5.1901412e-05
10,059	Progressive Partitioning for Parallelized Query Execution in Google’s Napa	2023	VLDB	5.1664022e-05
10,518	Breaking the Isolation-Freshness Trade-off: Joint Adaptive Storage Optimization for HTAP Systems	2026	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,150	Proactive Resume and Pause of Resources for Microsoft Azure SQL Database Serverless	2024	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,032	Logical Aspects of Massively Parallel and Distributed Systems	2016	PODS	5.093636e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1	Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System	1979	SIGMOD	0.0024089429
30	SCOPE: Easy and Efficient Parallel Processing of Massive Data Sets	2008	VLDB	0.00051174276
72	Map-Reduce-Merge: Simplified Relational Data Processing on Large Clusters	2007	SIGMOD	0.00037695852
87	Automated Selection of Materialized Views and Indexes for SQL Databases	2000	VLDB	0.00035281619
120	HadoopDB: An Architectural Hybrid of MapReduce and DBMS Technologies for Analytical Workloads	2009	VLDB	0.00031680027
126	Schism: a Workload-Driven Approach to Database Replication and Partitioning	2010	VLDB	0.00030779127
156	An Efficient, Cost-Driven Index Selection Tool for Microsoft SQL Server	1997	VLDB	0.00028636811
184	DB2 Design Advisor: Integrated Automatic Physical Database Design	2004	VLDB	0.00026256101
199	Integrating Vertical and Horizontal Partitioning into Automated Physical Database Design	2004	SIGMOD	0.00025612088
246	Automating Physical Database Design in a Parallel Database	2002	SIGMOD	0.00023457421
387	AutoAdmin "What-if" Index Analysis Utility	1998	SIGMOD	0.00019442332
995	Multi-Dimensional Database Allocation for Parallel Data Warehouses	2000	VLDB	0.00012758724
1,271	Hybrid-Range Partitioning Strategy: A New Declustering Strategy for Multiprocessor Database Machines	1990	VLDB	0.0001138443
1,997	Efficient Use of the Query Optimizer for Automated Physical Design	2007	VLDB	9.3378162e-05
3,003	Configuration-Parametric Query Optimization for Physical Design Tuning	2008	SIGMOD	7.8620915e-05
3,416	Two Techniques for On-Line Index Modification in Shared Nothing Parallel Databases	1996	SIGMOD	7.430628e-05
5,336	Distributed Query Evaluation with Performance Guarantees	2007	SIGMOD	6.2612462e-05
5,615	Efficient and Accurate Cost Models for Parallel Query Optimization	1996	PODS	6.1497352e-05

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