Benchmarking Spreadsheet Systems
Summary: Benchmarks Excel, Calc, and Sheets on canonical spreadsheet tasks to gauge interactivity. Finds latency undermining interactivity before large datasets and notes limited use of indexing, layout, and incremental computation, offering redesign guidance. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Sajjadur Rahman (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
- 2. Kelly Mack (University of Washington)
- 3. Mangesh Bendre (Visa Research)
- 4. Ruilin Zhang (University of Southern California)
- 5. Karrie Karahalios (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
- 6. Aditya Parameswaran (University of California Berkeley)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{rahman_sigmod20,
title = {{Benchmarking Spreadsheet Systems}},
author = {Rahman, Sajjadur and Mack, Kelly and Bendre, Mangesh and Zhang, Ruilin and Karahalios, Karrie and Parameswaran, Aditya},
series = {{SIGMOD} '20},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3318464.3389782},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3318464.3389782},
year = {2020}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8,510 | Sigma Workbook: A Spreadsheet for Cloud Data Warehouses | 2022 | VLDB | 5.4119882e-05 |
| 8,511 | NOAH: Interactive Spreadsheet Exploration with Dynamic Hierarchical Overviews | 2021 | VLDB | 5.4119882e-05 |
| 9,941 | An Adaptive Benchmark for Modeling User Exploration of Large Datasets | 2025 | SIGMOD | 5.1915905e-05 |
| 10,761 | Fast and Scalable Data Transfer Across Data Systems | 2025 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | Online Aggregation | 1997 | SIGMOD | 0.00077458002 |
| 44 | A Comparison of Approaches to Large-Scale Data Analysis | 2009 | SIGMOD | 0.00046055057 |
| 363 | Approximate Query Processing: Taming the TeraBytes! A Tutorial | 2001 | VLDB | 0.0002005475 |
| 914 | A Modeling Study of the TPC-C Benchmark | 1993 | SIGMOD | 0.00013246456 |
| 1,691 | PIVOT and UNPIVOT: Optimization and Execution Strategies in an RDBMS | 2004 | VLDB | 9.9999141e-05 |
| 11,853 | Anti-Freeze for Large and Complex Spreadsheets: Asynchronous Formula Computation | 2019 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
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