Pollock: A Data Loading Benchmark
Summary: Pollock benchmarks CSV loading under real-world dialect variation and structural inconsistencies. It derives grammar-guided pollution from thousands of files and evaluates 16 parsers, databases, spreadsheets, and visualization tools. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Gerardo Vitagliano (Hasso Plattner Institute; University of Potsdam)
- 2. Mazhar Hameed (Hasso Plattner Institute; University of Potsdam)
- 3. Lan Jiang (Hasso Plattner Institute; University of Potsdam)
- 4. Lucas Reisener (Hasso Plattner Institute; University of Potsdam)
- 5. Eugene Wu (Columbia University)
- 6. Felix Naumann (Hasso Plattner Institute; University of Potsdam)
BibTeX Citation
@article{vitagliano_vldb23,
title = {{Pollock: A Data Loading Benchmark}},
author = {Vitagliano, Gerardo and Hameed, Mazhar and Jiang, Lan and Reisener, Lucas and Wu, Eugene and Naumann, Felix},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '23},
volume = {16},
number = {8},
pages = {1870--1882},
doi = {10.14778/3594512.3594518},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3594512.3594518},
year = {2023}
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| 1,978 | Table-GPT: Table Fine-tuned GPT for Diverse Table Tasks | 2024 | SIGMOD | 9.2730152e-05 |
| 5,385 | SchemaPile: A Large Collection of Relational Database Schemas | 2024 | SIGMOD | 6.1523255e-05 |
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,735 | Speculative Distributed CSV Data Parsing for Big Data Analytics | 2019 | SIGMOD | 8.0761736e-05 |
| 4,244 | Pytheas: Pattern-based Table Discovery in CSV Files | 2020 | VLDB | 6.7067197e-05 |
| 4,929 | TPC-DI: The First Industry Benchmark for Data Integration | 2014 | VLDB | 6.3494846e-05 |
| 5,100 | Towards Benchmarking Feature Type Inference for AutoML Platforms | 2021 | SIGMOD | 6.27349e-05 |
| 7,152 | A framework for annotating CSV-like data | 2016 | VLDB | 5.5980734e-05 |
| 8,544 | Automation of Data Prep, ML, and Data Science: New Cure or Snake Oil? | 2021 | SIGMOD | 5.3186267e-05 |
| 11,925 | Detecting Layout Templates in Complex Multiregion Files | 2022 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-05 |
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