In-Browser Interactive SQL Analytics with Afterburner

Summary: Demonstrates a pure JavaScript analytical RDBMS (Afterburner) with in-memory columnar storage and asm.js compilation, no external dependencies. Back-end materializes a view from a predicate-template; shipped to the browser enables fast local querying. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5432
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 5.269408e-05
Overall Rank: 9,435 | 35.27%
DOI: 10.1145/3035918.3058736

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Kareem El Gebaly (University of Waterloo)
2. Jimmy Lin (University of Waterloo)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{gebaly_sigmod17,
        title = {{In-Browser Interactive SQL Analytics with Afterburner}},
        author = {Gebaly, Kareem El and Lin, Jimmy},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '17},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3035918.3058736},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3035918.3058736},
        year = {2017}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
9,419	Language-Agnostic Integrated Queries in a Managed Polyglot Runtime	2021	VLDB	5.273161e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
23	Efficiently Compiling Efficient Query Plans for Modern Hardware	2011	VLDB	0.00054886415
24	Spark SQL: Relational Data Processing in Spark	2015	SIGMOD	0.00054865648
198	Aggregate-Query Processing in Data Warehousing Environments	1995	VLDB	0.00025618616
534	Building Efficient Query Engines in a High-Level Language	2014	VLDB	0.00017046514
559	Optimizing Queries Using Materialized Views: A Practical, Scalable Solution	2001	SIGMOD	0.00016528822
1,636	Relaxing Join and Selection Queries	2006	VLDB	0.00010156479
2,336	Performance Tradeoffs for Client-Server Query Processing	1996	SIGMOD	8.7302865e-05
3,638	Fast Queries Over Heterogeneous Data Through Engine Customization	2016	VLDB	7.2338361e-05

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