Automatically Leveraging MapReduce Frameworks for Data-Intensive Applications

Summary: Casper translates Java programs into MapReduce-style implementations for Hadoop, Spark, and Flink. It uses program synthesis to infer a MapReduce summary, verified by a theorem prover, then emits executable code; benchmarks show up to 48.2x speedups. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5537
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2018
Pagerank: 6.0047822e-05
Overall Rank: 4,677 | 67.47%
DOI: 10.1145/3183713.3196891

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Authors

1. Maaz Bin Safeer Ahmad
2. Alvin Cheung

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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5,614	New Directions in Cloud Programming	2021	CIDR	5.4101976e-05
8,534	Translation of Array-Based Loops to Distributed Data-Parallel Programs	2020	VLDB	4.4937074e-05
8,645	Predicate Pushdown for Data Science Pipelines	2023	SIGMOD	4.4772518e-05
11,300	Towards Auto-Generated Data Systems	2023	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,513	TraNCE: Transforming Nested Collections Efficiently	2021	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,542	View-Driven Optimization of Database-Backed Web Applications	2020	CIDR	4.1945683e-05

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1	Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System	1979	SIGMOD	0.0040449103
66	Spark SQL: Relational Data Processing in Spark	2015	SIGMOD	0.00061639801
557	SystemML: Declarative Machine Learning on Spark	2016	VLDB	0.00020197988
704	Building Efficient Query Engines in a High-Level Language	2014	VLDB	0.00017900583
1,750	Weld: A Common Runtime for High Performance Data Analytics	2017	CIDR	0.00010683647
2,818	Implicit Parallelism through Deep Language Embedding	2015	SIGMOD	8.0665558e-05
3,296	Extracting Equivalent SQL from Imperative Code in Database Applications	2016	SIGMOD	7.2596583e-05

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