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Spark SQL: Relational Data Processing in Spark

Summary: Relational processing integrated into Spark via DataFrame API, unifying SQL queries with Spark's functional workflow. Catalyst, a Scala-based extensible optimizer, enables composable rules, code generation, JSON schema inference, and federation to databases. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h2541b5993b725084
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2015
Pagerank
0.00055523999
Overall Rank
23 | 99.85%
DOI
10.1145/2723372.2742797

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Authors

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{armbrust_sigmod15,
        title = {{Spark SQL: Relational Data Processing in Spark}},
        author = {Armbrust, Michael and Xin, Reynold S. and Lian, Cheng and Huai, Yin and Liu, Davies and Bradley, Joseph K. and Meng, Xiangrui and Kaftan, Tomer and Franklin, Michael J. and Ghodsi, Ali and Zaharia, Matei},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '15},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2723372.2742797},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2723372.2742797},
        year = {2015}
}

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278 Accelerating Machine Learning Inference with Probabilistic Predicates 2018 SIGMOD 0.00022277737
325 AnalyticDB-V: A Hybrid Analytical Engine Towards Query Fusion for Structured and Unstructured Data 2020 VLDB 0.00020930941
382 Apache Calcite: A Foundational Framework for Optimized Query Processing Over Heterogeneous Data Sources 2018 SIGMOD 0.0001946654
462 Delta Lake: High-Performance ACID Table Storage over Cloud Object Stores 2020 VLDB 0.00017825062
508 NeuroCard: One Cardinality Estimator for All Tables 2021 VLDB 0.00017108973
594 Wander Join: Online Aggregation via Random Walks 2016 SIGMOD 0.00015814493
793 Random Sampling over Joins Revisited 2018 SIGMOD 0.00013903938
841 Quickr: Lazily Approximating Complex AdHoc Queries in BigData Clusters 2016 SIGMOD 0.00013503124
955 Lakehouse: A New Generation of Open Platforms that Unify Data Warehousing and Advanced Analytics 2021 CIDR 0.00012856295
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1,128 Structured Streaming: A Declarative API for Real-Time Applications in Apache Spark 2018 SIGMOD 0.00011887295
1,183 Simba: Efficient In-Memory Spatial Analytics 2016 SIGMOD 0.00011589152
1,197 Weld: A Common Runtime for High Performance Data Analytics 2017 CIDR 0.00011548039
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1,327 Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing: A Survey 2017 SIGMOD 0.00011014905
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1,756 How to Architect a Query Compiler 2016 SIGMOD 9.7053947e-05
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1,839 DBEst: Revisiting Approximate Query Processing Engines with Machine Learning Models 2019 SIGMOD 9.5187688e-05
1,922 ModelarDB: Modular Model-Based Time Series Management with Spark and Cassandra 2018 VLDB 9.3577034e-05
2,009 FLAT: Fast, Lightweight and Accurate Method for Cardinality Estimation 2021 VLDB 9.1813272e-05
2,040 Database Learning: Toward a Database that Becomes Smarter Every Time 2017 SIGMOD 9.1319608e-05
2,101 DUALSIM: Parallel Subgraph Enumeration in a Massive Graph on a Single Machine 2016 SIGMOD 9.0309825e-05
2,147 Quickstep: A Data Platform Based on the Scaling-Up Approach 2018 VLDB 8.9595129e-05
2,167 DIFF: A Relational Interface for Large-Scale Data Explanation 2019 VLDB 8.9166414e-05
2,210 DITA: Distributed In-Memory Trajectory Analytics 2018 SIGMOD 8.844541e-05
2,258 Evaluating End-to-End Optimization for Data Analytics Applications in Weld 2018 VLDB 8.7387151e-05
2,356 Filter Before You Parse: Faster Analytics on Raw Data with Sparser 2018 VLDB 8.5715425e-05
2,407 Declarative Recursive Computation on an RDBMS or, Why You Should Use a Database For Distributed Machine Learning 2019 VLDB 8.4928721e-05
2,433 How to Architect a Query Compiler, Revisited 2018 SIGMOD 8.4614165e-05
2,446 Mison: A Fast JSON Parser for Data Analytics 2017 VLDB 8.4392802e-05
2,474 AnalyticDB: Real-time OLAP Database System at Alibaba Cloud 2019 VLDB 8.3955114e-05
2,543 SQLShare: Results from a Multi-Year SQL-as-a-Service Experiment 2016 SIGMOD 8.2993351e-05
2,644 Big Data Analytics with Datalog Queries on Spark 2016 SIGMOD 8.1655777e-05
2,672 End-to-end Optimization of Machine Learning Prediction Queries 2022 SIGMOD 8.1301225e-05
2,741 Speculative Distributed CSV Data Parsing for Big Data Analytics 2019 SIGMOD 8.0574455e-05
2,783 AIDA - Abstraction for Advanced In-Database Analytics 2018 VLDB 8.0027405e-05
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2,831 F1 Query: Declarative Querying at Scale 2018 VLDB 7.945337e-05
2,953 RaSQL: Greater Power and Performance for Big Data Analytics with Recursive-aggregate-SQL on Spark 2019 SIGMOD 7.8060043e-05
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6 Pig Latin: A Not-So-Foreign Language for Data Processing 2008 SIGMOD 0.0010494385
22 Distributed GraphLab: A Framework for Machine Learning and Data Mining in the Cloud 2012 VLDB 0.00056028465
43 A Comparison of Approaches to Large-Scale Data Analysis 2009 SIGMOD 0.00045453255
49 Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets 2010 VLDB 0.00043085722
118 The EXODUS Optimizer Generator 1987 SIGMOD 0.00031320165
154 MAD Skills: New Analysis Practices for Big Data 2009 VLDB 0.00028524078
327 Impala: A Modern, Open-Source SQL Engine for Hadoop 2015 CIDR 0.00020904249
436 Shark: SQL and Rich Analytics at Scale 2013 SIGMOD 0.00018274105
498 Building Efficient Query Engines in a High-Level Language 2014 VLDB 0.00017323427
1,262 Extracting Schema from Semistructured Data 1998 SIGMOD 0.00011277501
1,753 Sinew: A SQL System for Multi-Structured Data 2014 SIGMOD 9.7119095e-05
1,814 Distributed Data-Parallel Computing Using a High-Level Programming Language 2009 SIGMOD 9.5659163e-05
1,874 G-OLA: Generalized On-Line Aggregation for Interactive Analysis on Big Data 2015 SIGMOD 9.4470874e-05
2,800 Inferring XML Schema Definitions from XML Data 2007 VLDB 7.9784397e-05
3,537 Rethinking Data-Intensive Science Using Scalable Analytics Systems 2015 SIGMOD 7.2010811e-05
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