Introduction to Spark 2.0 for Database Researchers
Summary: Introduces Spark 2.0 to database researchers, focusing on Catalyst, whole-stage code generation, and hands-on use of DataFrames, SQL, streaming, and ML pipelines. Emphasizes engine internals and a practical path to hack Spark by extending the query optimizer to accelerate distributed joins. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Michael Armbrust
- 2. Doug Bateman
- 3. Reynold Xin
- 4. Matei Zaharia
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 1,532 | Data Management in Machine Learning: Challenges, Techniques, and Systems | 2017 | SIGMOD | 0.00011472681 |
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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 |
| 542 | Shark: SQL and Rich Analytics at Scale | 2013 | SIGMOD | 0.00020595648 |
| 3,535 | Scaling Spark in the Real World: Performance and Usability | 2015 | VLDB | 6.9992495e-05 |
| 6,784 | SparkR: Scaling R Programs with Spark | 2016 | SIGMOD | 4.9265155e-05 |
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