Building Advanced SQL Analytics From Low-Level Plan Operators

Summary: Unified framework to compose all SQL advanced aggregates (associative, distinct, window, grouping) from low-level plan operators. Reuses materialized intermediates, modularizes aggregate implementations, and speeds up queries; Umbra beats HyPer. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 6179
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2021
Pagerank: 4.5969549e-05
Overall Rank: 8,051 | 44.00%
DOI: 10.1145/3448016.3457288

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418	Morsel-Driven Parallelism: A NUMA-Aware Query Evaluation Framework for the Many-Core Age	2014	SIGMOD	0.00023729211
540	Design and Evaluation of Main Memory Hash Join Algorithms for Multi-core CPUs	2011	SIGMOD	0.0002063443
585	Massively Parallel Sort-Merge Joins in Main Memory Multi-Core Database Systems	2012	VLDB	0.00019706145
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735	Umbra: A Disk-Based System with In-Memory Performance	2020	CIDR	0.00017452467
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1,016	Memory-Efficient Hash Joins	2015	VLDB	0.00014638492
1,750	Weld: A Common Runtime for High Performance Data Analytics	2017	CIDR	0.00010683647
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2,742	Cache-Efficient Aggregation: Hashing Is Sorting	2015	SIGMOD	8.1906104e-05
3,721	To Partition, or Not to Partition, That is the Join Question in a Real System	2021	SIGMOD	6.8179379e-05
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