REEF: Retainable Evaluator Execution Framework

Summary: REEF provides a control-plane over resource managers to orchestrate execution. Focus on resource re-use, caching, and state management to enable elastic data workflows; demonstrated by ML, a shell, CORFU port, and Azure Stream Analytics. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5080
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2015
Pagerank: 5.880521e-05
Overall Rank: 6,430 | 55.89%
DOI: 10.1145/2723372.2742793

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Markus Weimer (Microsoft)
2. Yingda Chen (Microsoft)
3. Byung-Gon Chun (Seoul National University)
4. Tyson Condie (University of California Los Angeles)
5. Carlo Curino (Microsoft)
6. Chris Douglas (Microsoft)
7. Yunseong Lee (Seoul National University)
8. Tony Majestro (Microsoft)
9. Dahlia Malkhi (VMware)
10. Sergiy Matusevych (Microsoft)
11. Brandon Myers (University of Washington)
12. Shravan Narayanamurthy (Microsoft)
13. Raghu Ramakrishnan (Microsoft)
14. Sriram Rao (Microsoft)
15. Russell Sears (Pure Storage)
16. Beysim Sezgin (Microsoft)
17. Julia Wang (Microsoft)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{weimer_sigmod15,
        title = {{REEF: Retainable Evaluator Execution Framework}},
        author = {Weimer, Markus and Chen, Yingda and Chun, Byung-Gon and Condie, Tyson and Curino, Carlo and Douglas, Chris and Lee, Yunseong and Majestro, Tony and Malkhi, Dahlia and Matusevych, Sergiy and Myers, Brandon and Narayanamurthy, Shravan and Ramakrishnan, Raghu and Rao, Sriram and Sears, Russell and Sezgin, Beysim and Wang, Julia},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '15},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2723372.2742793},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2723372.2742793},
        year = {2015}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
415	SystemML: Declarative Machine Learning on Spark	2016	VLDB	0.0001888524

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 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	Pregel: A System for Large-Scale Graph Processing	2010	SIGMOD	0.0012250108
6	Pig Latin: A Not-So-Foreign Language for Data Processing	2008	SIGMOD	0.0010686205
32	Hive - A Warehousing Solution Over a Map-Reduce Framework	2009	VLDB	0.00050111008
1,240	Consistency Analysis in Bloom: a CALM and Collected Approach	2011	CIDR	0.00011536847
3,885	Apache Tez: A Unifying Framework for Modeling and Building Data Processing Applications	2015	SIGMOD	7.0475239e-05

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