ROBUS: Fair Cache Allocation for Data-parallel Workloads

Summary: ROBUS: a fair cache allocator for data-parallel, multi-tenant workloads. Defines a core-based fairness model (Pareto efficiency, envy-freeness) with randomized batching and polynomial-time approximations to achieve core-in-expectation fairness; prototype on Spark's RDD store demonstrates performance and fairness gains. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5456
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 5.5705944e-05
Overall Rank: 7,673 | 47.36%
DOI: 10.1145/3035918.3064018

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Authors

1. Mayuresh Kunjir (Duke University)
2. Brandon Fain (Duke University)
3. Kamesh Munagala (Duke University)
4. Shivnath Babu (Duke University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{kunjir_sigmod17,
        title = {{ROBUS: Fair Cache Allocation for Data-parallel Workloads}},
        author = {Kunjir, Mayuresh and Fain, Brandon and Munagala, Kamesh and Babu, Shivnath},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '17},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3035918.3064018},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3035918.3064018},
        year = {2017}
}

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3,605	Computation Reuse in Analytics Job Service at Microsoft	2018	SIGMOD	7.2640711e-05
7,639	Budget Sharing for Multi-Analyst Differential Privacy	2021	VLDB	5.5767645e-05
7,722	ChronoCache: Predictive and Adaptive Mid-Tier Query Result Caching	2020	SIGMOD	5.5586232e-05
9,982	Thoth in Action: Memory Management in Modern Data Analytics	2017	VLDB	5.1844786e-05

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105	Quickly Generating Billion-Record Synthetic Databases	1994	SIGMOD	0.00033877899
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523	Adaptive Self-Tuning Memory in DB2	2006	VLDB	0.00017133451
559	Optimizing Queries Using Materialized Views: A Practical, Scalable Solution	2001	SIGMOD	0.00016528822
584	Workload-Aware Database Monitoring and Consolidation	2011	SIGMOD	0.00016139925
761	Cooperative Scans: Dynamic Bandwidth Sharing in a DBMS	2007	VLDB	0.00014254351
803	MRShare: Sharing Across Multiple Queries in MapReduce	2010	VLDB	0.00013899943
929	Materialized View Selection and Maintenance Using Multi-Query Optimization	2001	SIGMOD	0.00013152103
943	DynaMat: A Dynamic View Management System for Data Warehouses	1999	SIGMOD	0.00013068595
1,335	SQLVM: Performance Isolation in Multi-Tenant Relational Database-as-a-Service	2013	CIDR	0.00011122853
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1,883	ReStore: Reusing Results of MapReduce Jobs	2012	VLDB	9.5421713e-05
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3,270	Scheduling Shared Scans of Large Data Files	2008	VLDB	7.5796338e-05
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6,736	Hadoop's Adolescence: An analysis of Hadoop usage in scientific workloads	2013	VLDB	5.787547e-05

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