Towards Unified Ad-hoc Data Processing

Summary: UniAD introduces UniQL, an HOQ-based intermediate representation for ad-hoc procedural data tasks, enabling cross-boundary optimizations between procedural and declarative code. A four-benchmark study demonstrates substantial performance gains across diverse user programs. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4863
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2014
Pagerank: 5.0456397e-05
Overall Rank: 6,483 | 54.90%
DOI: 10.1145/2588555.2610492

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,296	Extracting Equivalent SQL from Imperative Code in Database Applications	2016	SIGMOD	7.2596583e-05
6,407	Just-In-Time Data Virtualization: Lightweight Data Management with ViDa	2015	CIDR	5.076547e-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
3	Pig Latin: A Not-So-Foreign Language for Data Processing	2008	SIGMOD	0.0024183614
60	Efficiently Compiling Efficient Query Plans for Modern Hardware	2011	VLDB	0.00064439773
70	Hive - A Warehousing Solution Over a Map-Reduce Framework	2009	VLDB	0.00059533166
87	Hekaton: SQL Server’s Memory-Optimized OLTP Engine	2013	SIGMOD	0.00052389723
340	OLTP-Bench: An Extensible Testbed for Benchmarking Relational Databases	2014	VLDB	0.00026841628
1,199	A General Framework for the Optimization of Object-Oriented Queries	1992	SIGMOD	0.00013354204
1,280	Automatic Optimization for MapReduce Programs	2011	VLDB	0.0001285503
1,456	Rewriting Procedures for Batched Bindings	2008	VLDB	0.00011899772
2,632	A Transformation-Based Approach to Optimizing Loops in Database Programming Languages	1992	SIGMOD	8.4074026e-05
3,308	Automatic Partitioning of Database Applications	2012	VLDB	7.2422925e-05
4,376	Just-in-time compilation for SQL query processing	2013	VLDB	6.2424797e-05
5,215	Relational Approach for Shortest Path Discovery over Large Graphs	2012	VLDB	5.6228603e-05
5,818	Holistic Optimization by Prefetching Query Results	2012	SIGMOD	5.3154373e-05
8,858	Automatic Contention Detection and Amelioration for Data-Intensive Operations	2010	SIGMOD	4.4344518e-05

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