Debugging Big Data Analytics in Spark with BigDebug
Summary: BigDebug adds interactive debugging to Apache Spark, addressing the postmortem log-only debugging gap in DISC systems. Demo of a tool with interactive, live debugging features for Big Data apps. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Muhammad Ali Gulzar (University of California Los Angeles)
- 2. Matteo Interlandi (University of California Los Angeles)
- 3. Tyson Condie (University of California Los Angeles)
- 4. Miryung Kim (University of California Los Angeles)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{gulzar_sigmod17,
title = {{Debugging Big Data Analytics in Spark with BigDebug}},
author = {Gulzar, Muhammad Ali and Interlandi, Matteo and Condie, Tyson and Kim, Miryung},
series = {{SIGMOD} '17},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3035918.3058737},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3035918.3058737},
year = {2017}
}
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8,090 | Amber: A Debuggable Dataflow System Based on the Actor Model | 2020 | VLDB | 5.4890583e-05 |
| 11,814 | Demonstration of Interactive Runtime Debugging of Distributed Dataflows in Texera | 2020 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 11,842 | Ariadne: Online Provenance for Big Graph Analytics | 2019 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,617 | Titian: Data Provenance Support in Spark | 2016 | VLDB | 0.00010209397 |
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