ReStore: Reusing Results of MapReduce Jobs in Pig

Summary: ReStore extends Pig to manage storage and reuse of intermediate MapReduce results across workflows. It matches current Pig-embedded MR job graphs to prior executions, rewrites inputs to reuse cached outputs, and materializes operator outputs to broaden reuse opportunities; demonstrated with what-if analysis. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4648
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2012
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 12,322 | 15.46%
DOI: 10.1145/2213836.2213937

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Authors

1. Iman Elghandour (University of Waterloo)
2. Ashraf Aboulnaga (University of Waterloo)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{elghandour_sigmod12,
        title = {{ReStore: Reusing Results of MapReduce Jobs in Pig}},
        author = {Elghandour, Iman and Aboulnaga, Ashraf},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '12},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2213836.2213937},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2213836.2213937},
        year = {2012}
}

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,883	ReStore: Reusing Results of MapReduce Jobs	2012	VLDB	9.5421713e-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
6	Pig Latin: A Not-So-Foreign Language for Data Processing	2008	SIGMOD	0.0010686205
1,883	ReStore: Reusing Results of MapReduce Jobs	2012	VLDB	9.5421713e-05

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