Shasta: Interactive Reporting At Scale

Summary: Shasta is a Google middleware layer atop F1 and Mesa for interactive reporting over complex, read-unfriendly schemas. It introduces RVL, a modular view language compiled to SQL, and a distributed in-memory cache for low latency and fresh results at scale. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5208
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2016
Pagerank: 4.6089395e-05
Overall Rank: 7,956 | 44.71%
DOI: 10.1145/2882903.2904444

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,344	F1 Query: Declarative Querying at Scale	2018	VLDB	7.1944106e-05
3,764	F1 Lightning: HTAP as a Service	2020	VLDB	6.7762323e-05
9,968	Semantic Data Modeling, Graph Query, and SQL, Together at Last?	2026	CIDR	4.1905499e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 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
66	Spark SQL: Relational Data Processing in Spark	2015	SIGMOD	0.00061707583
152	Optimizing Queries across Diverse Data Sources	1997	VLDB	0.00040979242
900	F1: A Distributed SQL Database That Scales	2013	VLDB	0.00015466804
1,284	Photon: Fault-tolerant and Scalable Joining of Continuous Data Streams	2013	SIGMOD	0.00012820565
1,838	Mesa: Geo-Replicated, Near Real-Time, Scalable Data Warehousing	2014	VLDB	0.00010353323
2,850	Towards Scalable Real-time Analytics: An Architecture for Scale-out of OLxP Workloads	2015	VLDB	8.0194228e-05

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