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: 6180
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2021
Pagerank: 4.5925468e-05
Overall Rank: 8,053 | 44.04%
DOI: 10.1145/3448016.3457288

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8,098	Modularis: Modular Relational Analytics over Heterogeneous Distributed Platforms	2021	VLDB	4.5824106e-05
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417	Morsel-Driven Parallelism: A NUMA-Aware Query Evaluation Framework for the Many-Core Age	2014	SIGMOD	0.00023734582
538	Design and Evaluation of Main Memory Hash Join Algorithms for Multi-core CPUs	2011	SIGMOD	0.00020632609
584	Massively Parallel Sort-Merge Joins in Main Memory Multi-Core Database Systems	2012	VLDB	0.00019700451
592	A Rule-Based View of Query Optimization	1987	SIGMOD	0.0001953183
729	Umbra: A Disk-Based System with In-Memory Performance	2020	CIDR	0.00017448059
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1,016	Memory-Efficient Hash Joins	2015	VLDB	0.00014630024
1,751	Weld: A Common Runtime for High Performance Data Analytics	2017	CIDR	0.00010673874
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2,741	Cache-Efficient Aggregation: Hashing Is Sorting	2015	SIGMOD	8.1977375e-05
3,719	To Partition, or Not to Partition, That is the Join Question in a Real System	2021	SIGMOD	6.8141176e-05
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