On Improving User Response Times in Tableau

Summary: End-to-end study of Tableau's query processor, caches, Data Engine, and Data Server for interactive analytics with ad-hoc workloads. Caching, prefetching, and inter- and intra-query parallelism to boost backend utilization and cut latency. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5025
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2015
Pagerank: 9.04679e-05
Overall Rank: 2,318 | 83.90%
DOI: 10.1145/2723372.2742799

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2,286	SMOKE: Fine-grained Lineage at Interactive Speed	2018	VLDB	9.102574e-05
2,819	DBPal: A Learned NL-Interface for Databases	2018	SIGMOD	8.0668406e-05
5,535	SpeakQL: Towards Speech-driven Multimodal Querying of Structured Data	2020	SIGMOD	5.4552771e-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
1	Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System	1979	SIGMOD	0.0040465394
35	MonetDB/X100: Hyper-Pipelining Query Execution	2005	CIDR	0.00076209479
58	Efficient Optimization of a Class of Relational Expressions	1978	SIGMOD	0.00064817807
179	Efficient and Extensible Algorithms for Multi Query Optimization	2000	SIGMOD	0.00037637319
335	Optimization of Real Conjunctive Queries	1993	PODS	0.00027012705
444	Semantic Data Caching and Replacement	1996	VLDB	0.0002303513
496	Column-Stores vs. Row-Stores: How Different Are They Really?	2008	SIGMOD	0.00021705611
578	The GMAP: A Versatile Tool for Physical Data Independence	1994	VLDB	0.00019825485
728	Optimizing Queries Using Materialized Views: A Practical, Scalable Solution	2001	SIGMOD	0.00017459654
977	Pipelining in Multi-Query Optimization	2001	PODS	0.000148774
1,849	Combining User Interaction, Speculative Query Execution and Sampling in the DICE System	2014	VLDB	0.00010331082
2,663	An Analytic Data Engine for Visualization in Tableau	2011	SIGMOD	8.3532571e-05
2,695	An Architecture for Recycling Intermediates in a Column-store	2009	SIGMOD	8.2827669e-05
3,414	On the Complexity of Equivalence between Recursive and Nonrecursive Datalog Programs	1994	PODS	7.1172834e-05
3,508	Scheduling Shared Scans of Large Data Files	2008	VLDB	7.0293743e-05
4,055	On the Complexity of the Containment Problem for Conjunctive Queries with Built-in Predicates	1998	PODS	6.4906839e-05
4,971	Dynamic Workload Driven Data Integration in Tableau	2012	SIGMOD	5.7897494e-05
7,171	Leveraging Compression in the Tableau Data Engine	2014	SIGMOD	4.8071091e-05

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