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Spark SQL: Relational Data Processing in Spark

Summary: Relational processing integrated into Spark via DataFrame API, unifying SQL queries with Spark's functional workflow. Catalyst, a Scala-based extensible optimizer, enables composable rules, code generation, JSON schema inference, and federation to databases. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
5023
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2015
Pagerank
0.00061707583
Overall Rank
66 | 99.55%
DOI
10.1145/2723372.2742797

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332 Accelerating Machine Learning Inference with Probabilistic Predicates 2018 SIGMOD 0.00027173479
542 Apache Calcite: A Foundational Framework for Optimized Query Processing Over Heterogeneous Data Sources 2018 SIGMOD 0.00020522627
730 AnalyticDB-V: A Hybrid Analytical Engine Towards Query Fusion for Structured and Unstructured Data 2020 VLDB 0.00017443615
739 Delta Lake: High-Performance ACID Table Storage over Cloud Object Stores 2020 VLDB 0.00017365933
905 NeuroCard: One Cardinality Estimator for All Tables 2021 VLDB 0.00015423174
941 Wander Join: Online Aggregation via Random Walks 2016 SIGMOD 0.00015147831
1,301 Simba: Efficient In-Memory Spatial Analytics 2016 SIGMOD 0.00012702767
1,320 Quickr: Lazily Approximating Complex AdHoc Queries in BigData Clusters 2016 SIGMOD 0.00012606067
1,356 Lakehouse: A New Generation of Open Platforms that Unify Data Warehousing and Advanced Analytics 2021 CIDR 0.00012409986
1,372 Random Sampling over Joins Revisited 2018 SIGMOD 0.0001233325
1,427 Towards Scalable Dataframe Systems 2020 VLDB 0.00012033503
1,481 Automating Large-Scale Data Quality Verification 2018 VLDB 0.00011715754
1,546 Structured Streaming: A Declarative API for Real-Time Applications in Apache Spark 2018 SIGMOD 0.00011418993
1,574 Approximate Query Processing: No Silver Bullet 2017 SIGMOD 0.00011289028
1,666 HELIX: Holistic Optimization for Accelerating Iterative Machine Learning 2019 VLDB 0.00010955907
1,751 Weld: A Common Runtime for High Performance Data Analytics 2017 CIDR 0.00010673874
1,786 Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing: A Survey 2017 SIGMOD 0.00010543881
1,884 Tuplex: Data Science in Python at Native Code Speed 2021 SIGMOD 0.00010206514
1,939 Procella: Unifying serving and analytical data at YouTube 2019 VLDB 0.00010019433
2,030 Titian: Data Provenance Support in Spark 2016 VLDB 9.734332e-05
2,097 Axiomatic Foundations and Algorithms for Deciding Semantic Equivalences of SQL Queries 2018 VLDB 9.5439744e-05
2,158 DIFF: A Relational Interface for Large-Scale Data Explanation 2019 VLDB 9.4117885e-05
2,198 DITA: Distributed In-Memory Trajectory Analytics 2018 SIGMOD 9.3096071e-05
2,274 ModelarDB: Modular Model-Based Time Series Management with Spark and Cassandra 2018 VLDB 9.1432785e-05
2,383 How to Architect a Query Compiler 2016 SIGMOD 8.9198524e-05
2,472 Photon: A Fast Query Engine for Lakehouse Systems 2022 SIGMOD 8.7156826e-05
2,494 DBEst: Revisiting Approximate Query Processing Engines with Machine Learning Models 2019 SIGMOD 8.6457436e-05
2,542 POLARIS: The Distributed SQL Engine in Azure Synapse 2020 VLDB 8.5681631e-05
2,589 Database Learning: Toward a Database that Becomes Smarter Every Time 2017 SIGMOD 8.4868591e-05
2,706 Filter Before You Parse: Faster Analytics on Raw Data with Sparser 2018 VLDB 8.2655235e-05
2,769 FLAT: Fast, Lightweight and Accurate Method for Cardinality Estimation 2021 VLDB 8.1512848e-05
2,777 Quickstep: A Data Platform Based on the Scaling-Up Approach 2018 VLDB 8.1346418e-05
2,799 DUALSIM: Parallel Subgraph Enumeration in a Massive Graph on a Single Machine 2016 SIGMOD 8.109137e-05
2,825 Mison: A Fast JSON Parser for Data Analytics 2017 VLDB 8.0575959e-05
2,843 How to Architect a Query Compiler, Revisited 2018 SIGMOD 8.0334687e-05
2,904 Evaluating End-to-End Optimization for Data Analytics Applications in Weld 2018 VLDB 7.9403097e-05
2,922 RaSQL: Greater Power and Performance for Big Data Analytics with Recursive-aggregate-SQL on Spark 2019 SIGMOD 7.897179e-05
2,939 AIDA - Abstraction for Advanced In-Database Analytics 2018 VLDB 7.8514162e-05
2,959 SQLShare: Results from a Multi-Year SQL-as-a-Service Experiment 2016 SIGMOD 7.8116974e-05
3,027 Helix: Accelerating Human-in-the-loop Machine Learning 2018 VLDB 7.68624e-05
3,060 Rethinking Data-Intensive Science Using Scalable Analytics Systems 2015 SIGMOD 7.639315e-05
3,153 AnalyticDB: Real-time OLAP Database System at Alibaba Cloud 2019 VLDB 7.4706916e-05
3,207 Big Data Analytics with Datalog Queries on Spark 2016 SIGMOD 7.3847098e-05
3,344 F1 Query: Declarative Querying at Scale 2018 VLDB 7.1944106e-05
3,409 End-to-end Optimization of Machine Learning Prediction Queries 2022 SIGMOD 7.1240791e-05
3,432 Speculative Distributed CSV Data Parsing for Big Data Analytics 2019 SIGMOD 7.0974248e-05
3,536 Scaling Spark in the Real World: Performance and Usability 2015 VLDB 6.9938207e-05
3,551 Chi: A Scalable and Programmable Control Plane for Distributed Stream Processing Systems 2018 VLDB 6.9776252e-05
3,575 Lightning Fast and Space Efficient Inequality Joins 2015 VLDB 6.9509846e-05
3,641 OceanBase: A 707 Million tpmC Distributed Relational Database System 2022 VLDB 6.8877808e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 15 of 15 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 Pig Latin: A Not-So-Foreign Language for Data Processing 2008 SIGMOD 0.0024217964
39 Distributed GraphLab: A Framework for Machine Learning and Data Mining in the Cloud 2012 VLDB 0.00075263552
42 A Comparison of Approaches to Large-Scale Data Analysis 2009 SIGMOD 0.00073570328
109 Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets 2010 VLDB 0.00048217028
134 The EXODUS Optimizer Generator 1987 SIGMOD 0.00043070028
169 MAD Skills: New Analysis Practices for Big Data 2009 VLDB 0.00038967371
476 Impala: A Modern, Open-Source SQL Engine for Hadoop 2015 CIDR 0.00022216002
539 Shark: SQL and Rich Analytics at Scale 2013 SIGMOD 0.00020615453
701 Building Efficient Query Engines in a High-Level Language 2014 VLDB 0.00017893039
1,163 Extracting Schema from Semistructured Data 1998 SIGMOD 0.00013572993
1,719 Distributed Data-Parallel Computing Using a High-Level Programming Language 2009 SIGMOD 0.00010759065
2,006 Sinew: A SQL System for Multi-Structured Data 2014 SIGMOD 9.8144532e-05
2,354 G-OLA: Generalized On-Line Aggregation for Interactive Analysis on Big Data 2015 SIGMOD 8.9748896e-05
2,869 Inferring XML Schema Definitions from XML Data 2007 VLDB 7.9841565e-05
3,060 Rethinking Data-Intensive Science Using Scalable Analytics Systems 2015 SIGMOD 7.639315e-05
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