VQA: Vertica Query Analyzer

Summary: VQA: Vertica Query Analyzer, a query monitoring tool for analytic workloads. It presents high-volume metrics across multi-granularity views, identifies runtime bottlenecks, and suggests corrective actions; supports a research platform, demonstrated on TPC-DS. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4900
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2014
Pagerank: 7.0511953e-05
Overall Rank: 3,878 | 73.40%
DOI: 10.1145/2588555.2594531

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Alkis Simitsis (Hewlett Packard Enterprise)
2. Kevin Wilkinson (Hewlett Packard Enterprise)
3. Jason Blais (Hewlett Packard Enterprise)
4. Joe Walsh (Hewlett Packard Enterprise)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{simitsis_sigmod14,
        title = {{VQA: Vertica Query Analyzer}},
        author = {Simitsis, Alkis and Wilkinson, Kevin and Blais, Jason and Walsh, Joe},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '14},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2588555.2594531},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2588555.2594531},
        year = {2014}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
6,056	QE3D: Interactive Visualization and Exploration of Complex, Distributed Query Plans	2015	SIGMOD	5.9925637e-05
10,743	VQLens: A Demonstration of Vector Query Execution Analysis	2025	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
11,829	Automated Performance Management for the Big Data Stack	2019	CIDR	5.093636e-05
12,067	JexLog: A Sonar for the Abyss	2016	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,478	Stethoscope: A Platform for Interactive Visual Analysis of Query Execution Plans	2012	VLDB	7.3774551e-05

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