Clydesdale: Structured Data Processing on Hadoop

Summary: Clydesdale, a Hadoop-based prototype for structured data processing, achieves major performance gains without changing MapReduce. By fusing DB techniques with Hadoop and exposing ClyQL, a Scala DSL for star-joins, it delivers ~38x faster star-schema workloads than Hive. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4649
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2012
Pagerank: 5.9458654e-05
Overall Rank: 6,199 | 57.48%
DOI: 10.1145/2213836.2213938

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Andrey Balmin (IBM)
2. Tim Kaldewey (IBM)
3. Sandeep Tata (IBM)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{balmin_sigmod12,
        title = {{Clydesdale: Structured Data Processing on Hadoop}},
        author = {Balmin, Andrey and Kaldewey, Tim and Tata, Sandeep},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '12},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2213836.2213938},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2213836.2213938},
        year = {2012}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,230	Can the Elephants Handle the NoSQL Onslaught?	2012	VLDB	6.8178353e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
12	C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS	2005	VLDB	0.00069513174
29	Database Architecture Optimized for the New Bottleneck: Memory Access	1999	VLDB	0.00052093615
44	A Comparison of Approaches to Large-Scale Data Analysis	2009	SIGMOD	0.00046055057
120	HadoopDB: An Architectural Hybrid of MapReduce and DBMS Technologies for Analytical Workloads	2009	VLDB	0.00031680027
632	Adaptive Aggregation on Chip Multiprocessors	2007	VLDB	0.00015575286
660	Hadoop++: Making a Yellow Elephant Run Like a Cheetah (Without It Even Noticing)	2010	VLDB	0.00015198804
2,849	Column-Oriented Storage Techniques for MapReduce	2011	VLDB	8.053191e-05
2,942	Llama: Leveraging Columnar Storage for Scalable Join Processing in the MapReduce Framework	2011	SIGMOD	7.9358593e-05

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