Shark: Fast Data Analysis Using Coarse-grained Distributed Memory

Summary: Shark is a data-analysis system built on a coarse-grained distributed shared-memory abstraction, unifying SQL querying with near-data analytics. Scales to thousands of fault-tolerant nodes; delivers 40x faster queries vs Hive and 25x faster ML vs MapReduce on large datasets. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4583
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2012
Pagerank: 8.6683713e-05
Overall Rank: 2,488 | 82.70%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 12 of 12 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,098	Trill: A High-Performance Incremental Query Processor for Diverse Analytics	2015	VLDB	0.00014114442
1,152	Blink and It's Done: Interactive Queries on Very Large Data	2012	VLDB	0.00013645792
1,487	Scuba: Diving into Data at Facebook	2013	VLDB	0.00011701099
1,588	Druid: A Real-time Analytical Data Store	2014	SIGMOD	0.00011239313
2,192	DITA: Distributed In-Memory Trajectory Analytics	2018	SIGMOD	9.3185895e-05
2,501	DBEst: Revisiting Approximate Query Processing Engines with Machine Learning Models	2019	SIGMOD	8.6453446e-05
4,248	Hyper Dimension Shuffle: Efficient Data Repartition at Petabyte Scale in SCOPE	2019	VLDB	6.3247927e-05
7,198	BSMA: A Benchmark for Analytical Queries over Social Media Data	2014	VLDB	4.8033496e-05
7,747	TSCache: An Efficient Flash-based Caching Scheme for Time-series Data Workloads	2021	VLDB	4.6616405e-05
9,894	OceanRT: Real-Time Analytics over Large Temporal Data	2014	SIGMOD	4.2602616e-05
12,005	Design and Implementation of a Real-Time Interactive Analytics System for Large Spatio-Temporal Data	2014	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
12,028	D-Hive: Data Bees Pollinating RDF, Text, and Time	2013	CIDR	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
42	A Comparison of Approaches to Large-Scale Data Analysis	2009	SIGMOD	0.00073498298

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