SparkR: Scaling R Programs with Spark

Summary: R's single-threaded nature and memory limits curb interactive analytics. SparkR adds an R frontend to Apache Spark, enabling scalable, distributed data analysis from the R shell via Spark's DataFrame API and distributed computation. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5199
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2016
Pagerank: 4.9265155e-05
Overall Rank: 6,784 | 52.81%
DOI: 10.1145/2882903.2903740

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1,377	Lakehouse: A New Generation of Open Platforms that Unify Data Warehousing and Advanced Analytics	2021	CIDR	0.00012296941
1,532	Data Management in Machine Learning: Challenges, Techniques, and Systems	2017	SIGMOD	0.00011472681
2,194	Enabling and Optimizing Non-linear Feature Interactions in Factorized Linear Algebra	2019	SIGMOD	9.3138337e-05
5,731	Babelfish: Efficient Execution of Polyglot Queries	2022	VLDB	5.3502065e-05
9,584	Introduction to Spark 2.0 for Database Researchers	2016	SIGMOD	4.3218691e-05
10,969	Query Compilation Without Regrets	2024	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-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
66	Spark SQL: Relational Data Processing in Spark	2015	SIGMOD	0.00061639801
476	Impala: A Modern, Open-Source SQL Engine for Hadoop	2015	CIDR	0.00022226941
542	Shark: SQL and Rich Analytics at Scale	2013	SIGMOD	0.00020595648
1,495	Ricardo: Integrating R and Hadoop	2010	SIGMOD	0.00011691049
3,535	Scaling Spark in the Real World: Performance and Usability	2015	VLDB	6.9992495e-05
5,395	Large-scale Predictive Analytics in Vertica: Fast Data Transfer, Distributed Model Creation, and In-database Prediction	2015	SIGMOD	5.5318806e-05
6,870	Stat! - An Interactive Analytics Environment for Big Data	2013	SIGMOD	4.9004414e-05

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