GenBase: A Complex Analytics Genomics Benchmark

Summary: GenBase presents a mixed-workload benchmark combining DBMS tasks (joins, filters) with genomics analytics (regression, SVD). Evaluates row/column stores, Hadoop, and array DBMS on single and multi-node clusters, exposing scalability issues; data and tools released. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4912
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2014
Pagerank: 7.9281519e-05
Overall Rank: 2,949 | 79.77%
DOI: 10.1145/2558895.2559633

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Rebecca Taft (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
2. Manasi Vartak (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
3. Nadathur Rajagopalan Satish (Intel)
4. Narayanan Sundaram (Intel)
5. Samuel Madden (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
6. Michael Stonebraker (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{taft_sigmod14,
        title = {{GenBase: A Complex Analytics Genomics Benchmark}},
        author = {Taft, Rebecca and Vartak, Manasi and Satish, Nadathur Rajagopalan and Sundaram, Narayanan and Madden, Samuel and Stonebraker, Michael},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '14},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2558895.2559633},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2558895.2559633},
        year = {2014}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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1,250	Data Management in Machine Learning: Challenges, Techniques, and Systems	2017	SIGMOD	0.00011485301
1,585	Dynamic Prefetching of Data Tiles for Interactive Visualization	2016	SIGMOD	0.00010288399
3,459	A Comparative Evaluation of Systems for Scalable Linear Algebra-based Analytics	2018	VLDB	7.3953716e-05
4,224	Comparative Evaluation of Big-Data Systems on Scientific Image Analytics Workloads	2017	VLDB	6.8214304e-05
5,233	Progressive Top-k Subarray Query Processing in Array Databases	2019	VLDB	6.3054877e-05
5,534	Skew-Aware Join Optimization for Array Databases	2015	SIGMOD	6.1831004e-05
6,215	ESTOCADA: Towards Scalable Polystore Systems	2020	VLDB	5.9425753e-05
6,538	UPLIFT: Parallelization Strategies for Feature Transformations in Machine Learning Workloads	2022	VLDB	5.8477764e-05
8,208	M2Bench: A Database Benchmark for Multi-Model Analytic Workloads	2023	VLDB	5.4665936e-05
8,683	VeriBench: Analyzing the Performance of Database Systems with Verifiability	2023	VLDB	5.3854006e-05
11,994	Massively Parallel Processing of Whole Genome Sequence Data: An In-Depth Performance Study	2017	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
45	Benchmarking Database Systems: A Systematic Approach	1983	VLDB	0.00045531113
106	The MADlib Analytics Library or MAD Skills, the SQL	2012	VLDB	0.00033539462
587	Linear Road: A Stream Data Management Benchmark	2004	VLDB	0.00016106078
4,469	The BUCKY Object-Relational Benchmark	1997	SIGMOD	6.6818543e-05

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