NoDB: Efficient Query Execution on Raw Data Files

Summary: NoDB enables in-situ querying of raw data, avoiding loading by making raw files first-class in the engine. Adaptive indexing with caching cuts parsing and type-conversion costs; PostgresRaw delivers load-free queries with strong PostgreSQL performance. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4527
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2012
Pagerank: 0.00012482538
Overall Rank: 1,343 | 90.66%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 43 of 43 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,552	Overview of Data Exploration Techniques	2015	SIGMOD	0.00011408814
1,750	Weld: A Common Runtime for High Performance Data Analytics	2017	CIDR	0.00010683647
1,807	H2O: A Hands-free Adaptive Store	2014	SIGMOD	0.00010487796
1,840	dbTouch: Analytics at your Fingertips	2013	CIDR	0.0001034905
2,001	Sinew: A SQL System for Multi-Structured Data	2014	SIGMOD	9.8186417e-05
2,062	Dremel: A Decade of Interactive SQL Analysis at Web Scale	2020	VLDB	9.6481955e-05
2,122	SystemDS: A Declarative Machine Learning System for the End-to-End Data Science Lifecycle	2020	CIDR	9.4989076e-05
2,322	Instant Loading for Main Memory Databases	2013	VLDB	9.034874e-05
2,700	Filter Before You Parse: Faster Analytics on Raw Data with Sparser	2018	VLDB	8.2728509e-05
2,757	Parallel Data Analysis Directly on Scientific File Formats	2014	SIGMOD	8.1679384e-05
2,819	Mison: A Fast JSON Parser for Data Analytics	2017	VLDB	8.0651326e-05
2,973	Parallel In-Situ Data Processing with Speculative Loading	2014	SIGMOD	7.7902322e-05
3,343	Comparative Evaluation of Big-Data Systems on Scientific Image Analytics Workloads	2017	VLDB	7.1967343e-05
3,437	Speculative Distributed CSV Data Parsing for Big Data Analytics	2019	SIGMOD	7.0942161e-05
3,548	Adaptive Query Processing on RAW Data	2014	VLDB	6.9859242e-05
3,891	Slalom: Coasting Through Raw Data via Adaptive Partitioning and Indexing	2017	VLDB	6.659442e-05
3,940	NoDB in Action: Adaptive Query Processing on Raw Data	2012	VLDB	6.6153423e-05
4,326	Fast Queries Over Heterogeneous Data Through Engine Customization	2016	VLDB	6.288323e-05
4,602	Accelerating Raw Data Analysis with the ACCORDA Software and Hardware Architecture	2019	VLDB	6.0567387e-05
4,704	JSON Tiles: Fast Analytics on Semi-Structured Data	2021	SIGMOD	5.9853687e-05
5,301	ReCache: Reactive Caching for Fast Analytics over Heterogeneous Data	2018	VLDB	5.5790928e-05
5,376	Holistic Indexing in Main-memory Column-stores	2015	SIGMOD	5.5417421e-05
5,924	HMAB: Self-Driving Hierarchy of Bandits for Integrated Physical Database Design Tuning	2023	VLDB	5.2719183e-05
6,407	Just-In-Time Data Virtualization: Lightweight Data Management with ViDa	2015	CIDR	5.076547e-05
6,977	FishStore: Fast Ingestion and Indexing of Raw Data	2019	VLDB	4.8761802e-05
6,981	Dataset Relationship Management	2019	CIDR	4.8743957e-05
6,988	CrocodileDB: Efficient Database Execution through Intelligent Deferment	2020	CIDR	4.8718019e-05
7,237	CleanM: An Optimizable Query Language for Unified Scale-Out Data Cleaning	2017	VLDB	4.7928651e-05
7,254	DEX: Query Execution in a Delta-based Storage System	2017	SIGMOD	4.7885915e-05
7,360	ParPaRaw: Massively Parallel Parsing of Delimiter-Separated Raw Data	2020	VLDB	4.7525925e-05
7,704	ExDRa: Exploratory Data Science on Federated Raw Data	2021	SIGMOD	4.6733838e-05
7,830	Scalable Structural Index Construction for JSON Analytics	2021	VLDB	4.6388763e-05
8,271	Rumble: Data Independence for Large Messy Data Sets	2021	VLDB	4.5453618e-05
8,788	FishStore: Faster Ingestion with Subset Hashing	2019	SIGMOD	4.451039e-05
9,052	RawVis: A System for Efficient In-situ Visual Analytics	2021	SIGMOD	4.4039656e-05
9,083	AT-GIS: Highly Parallel Spatial Query Processing with Associative Transducers	2016	SIGMOD	4.399861e-05
9,379	GIO: Generating Efficient Matrix and Frame Readers for Custom Data Formats by Example	2023	SIGMOD	4.3462787e-05
9,918	Shared Load(ing): Efficient Bulk Loading into Optimized Storage	2020	CIDR	4.2561557e-05
10,482	Fast and Scalable Data Transfer Across Data Systems	2025	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
11,021	SeLeP: Learning Based Semantic Prefetching for Exploratory Database Workloads	2024	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,784	Alpine: Efficient In situ Data Exploration in the Presence of Updates	2017	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
11,850	Vectorizing an In Situ Query Engine	2016	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
12,073	Lazy ETL in Action: ETL Technology Dates Scientific Data	2013	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 20 of 20 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
158	Automated Selection of Materialized Views and Indexes for SQL Databases	2000	VLDB	0.00040071492
168	MAD Skills: New Analysis Practices for Big Data	2009	VLDB	0.00038946305
237	An Efficient, Cost-Driven Index Selection Tool for Microsoft SQL Server	1997	VLDB	0.00031726304
257	Making Database Systems Usable	2007	SIGMOD	0.00030223397
258	DB2 Design Advisor: Integrated Automatic Physical Database Design	2004	VLDB	0.0003022091
286	Integrating Vertical and Horizontal Partitioning into Automated Physical Database Design	2004	SIGMOD	0.00028990057
346	Don't Scrap It, Wrap It! A Wrapper Architecture for Legacy Data Sources	1997	VLDB	0.00026656272
408	Database Cracking	2007	CIDR	0.00023953844
496	Automatic SQL Tuning in Oracle 10g	2004	VLDB	0.00021728655
661	Database Tuning Advisor for Microsoft SQL Server 2005	2004	VLDB	0.00018481174
928	Requirements for Science Data Bases and SciDB	2009	CIDR	0.00015247726
1,017	Automatic Physical Database Tuning: A Relaxation-based Approach	2005	SIGMOD	0.00014634307
1,907	Guided Interaction: Rethinking the Query-Result Paradigm	2011	VLDB	0.00010136636
2,017	The Researcher’s Guide to the Data Deluge: Querying a Scientific Database in Just a Few Seconds	2011	VLDB	9.7810458e-05
2,229	Self-organizing Tuple Reconstruction in Column-stores	2009	SIGMOD	9.2350274e-05
2,363	Merging What’s Cracked, Cracking What’s Merged: Adaptive Indexing in Main-Memory Column-Stores	2011	VLDB	8.9580928e-05
2,367	Here are my Data Files. Here are my Queries. Where are my Results?	2011	CIDR	8.9511058e-05
2,470	CoPhy: A Scalable, Portable, and Interactive Index Advisor for Large Workloads	2011	VLDB	8.7333019e-05
2,787	To Tune or not to Tune? A Lightweight Physical Design Alerter	2006	VLDB	8.1263608e-05
3,896	Updating a Cracked Database	2007	SIGMOD	6.6575888e-05

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