sPCA: Scalable Principal Component Analysis for Big Data on Distributed Platforms

Summary: Introduces sPCA, a scalable PCA optimized for distributed big-data platforms. Leverages sparse matrix ops, minimizes intermediates, and is implemented on MapReduce and Spark; outperforms Mahout-PCA and MLlib-PCA in accuracy, speed, and data-shuffle. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5146
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2015
Pagerank: 5.4119882e-05
Overall Rank: 8,535 | 41.45%
DOI: 10.1145/2723372.2751520

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Authors

1. Tarek Elgamal (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
2. Maysam Yabandeh (Twitter)
3. Ashraf Aboulnaga (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
4. Waleed Mustafa (NTG Clarity)
5. Mohamed Hefeeda (Qatar Computing Research Institute)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{elgamal_sigmod15,
        title = {{sPCA: Scalable Principal Component Analysis for Big Data on Distributed Platforms}},
        author = {Elgamal, Tarek and Yabandeh, Maysam and Aboulnaga, Ashraf and Mustafa, Waleed and Hefeeda, Mohamed},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '15},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2723372.2751520},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2723372.2751520},
        year = {2015}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
11,251	QCore: Data-Efficient, On-Device Continual Calibration for Quantized Models	2024	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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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
372	HaLoop: Efficient Iterative Data Processing on Large Clusters	2010	VLDB	0.0001981521
532	MLbase: A Distributed Machine-learning System	2013	CIDR	0.00017072641
1,742	ArrayStore: A Storage Manager for Complex Parallel Array Processing	2011	SIGMOD	9.8748669e-05

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