G-OLA: Generalized On-Line Aggregation for Interactive Analysis on Big Data

Summary: G-OLA generalizes online aggregation to support OLAP queries with arbitrarily nested aggregates via delta-maintenance in a mini-batch model. Implemented in FluoDB atop Spark; scales to 100 nodes processing ~10 TB of logs with real-time dashboards. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4996
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2015
Pagerank: 8.9677847e-05
Overall Rank: 2,355 | 83.62%
DOI: 10.1145/2723372.2735381

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 25 of 25 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
66	Spark SQL: Relational Data Processing in Spark	2015	SIGMOD	0.00061639801
943	Wander Join: Online Aggregation via Random Walks	2016	SIGMOD	0.00015145883
1,204	VerdictDB: Universalizing Approximate Query Processing	2018	SIGMOD	0.00013319541
1,323	Quickr: Lazily Approximating Complex AdHoc Queries in BigData Clusters	2016	SIGMOD	0.00012601997
1,350	Northstar: An Interactive Data Science System	2018	VLDB	0.00012431059
1,369	Random Sampling over Joins Revisited	2018	SIGMOD	0.00012339777
1,574	Approximate Query Processing: No Silver Bullet	2017	SIGMOD	0.00011287495
2,588	Database Learning: Toward a Database that Becomes Smarter Every Time	2017	SIGMOD	8.4909562e-05
2,716	Davos: A System for Interactive Data-Driven Decision Making	2021	VLDB	8.2429172e-05
3,333	SnappyData: A Unified Cluster for Streaming, Transactions, and Interactive Analytics	2017	CIDR	7.2093479e-05
3,535	Scaling Spark in the Real World: Performance and Usability	2015	VLDB	6.9992495e-05
3,919	Efficient Selection of Geospatial Data on Maps for Interactive and Visualized Exploration	2018	SIGMOD	6.631077e-05
4,030	Revisiting Reuse for Approximate Query Processing	2017	VLDB	6.5129665e-05
4,681	Adaptive Sampling for Rapidly Matching Histograms	2018	VLDB	6.0034918e-05
5,909	At-the-time and Back-in-time Persistent Sketches	2021	SIGMOD	5.2769377e-05
6,298	Hillview: A trillion-cell spreadsheet for big data	2019	VLDB	5.1226987e-05
6,400	iOLAP: Managing Uncertainty for Efficient Incremental OLAP	2016	SIGMOD	5.0803518e-05
6,411	Approximate Query Engines: Commercial Challenges and Research Opportunities	2017	SIGMOD	5.0752468e-05
7,073	Marviq: Quality-Aware Geospatial Visualization of Range-Selection Queries Using Materialization	2020	SIGMOD	4.842703e-05
8,080	Biathlon: Harnessing Model Resilience for Accelerating ML Inference Pipelines	2024	VLDB	4.5911668e-05
8,862	TabEE: Tabular Embeddings Explanations	2024	SIGMOD	4.4331977e-05
9,948	DeepOLA: Online Aggregation for Deeply Nested Queries	2022	SIGMOD	4.2421586e-05
10,497	PilotDB: Database-Agnostic Online Approximate Query Processing with A Priori Error Guarantees	2025	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
11,194	A Step Toward Deep Online Aggregation	2023	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
11,650	Query-Driven Learning for Next Generation Predictive Modeling & Analytics	2019	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 14 of 14 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
14	Online Aggregation	1997	SIGMOD	0.0010801504
43	Models and Issues in Data Stream Systems	2002	PODS	0.00072723062
55	Efficiently Updating Materialized Views	1986	SIGMOD	0.00065762967
191	The Design of the Borealis Stream Processing Engine	2005	CIDR	0.00035738595
194	Query Processing, Resource Management, and Approximation in a Data Stream Management System	2003	CIDR	0.00035426067
429	The Aqua Approximate Query Answering System	1999	SIGMOD	0.00023476494
481	Incremental Maintenance of Views with Duplicates	1995	SIGMOD	0.00022167223
586	DBToaster: Higher-order Delta Processing for Dynamic, Frequently Fresh Views	2012	VLDB	0.00019685374
1,260	Dynamic Sample Selection for Approximate Query Processing	2003	SIGMOD	0.00012993347
1,464	Online Aggregation for Large MapReduce Jobs	2011	VLDB	0.00011865546
1,874	Knowing When You’re Wrong: Building Fast and Reliable Approximate Query Processing Systems	2014	SIGMOD	0.00010244443
1,909	SciBORQ: Scientific data management with Bounds On Runtime and Quality	2011	CIDR	0.00010121304
2,361	Incremental Maintenance for Non-Distributive Aggregate Functions	2002	VLDB	8.9601322e-05
2,736	Online Aggregation and Continuous Query support in MapReduce	2010	SIGMOD	8.2043187e-05

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