On Improving User Response Times in Tableau

Summary: End-to-end study of Tableau's query processor, caches, Data Engine, and Data Server for interactive analytics with ad-hoc workloads. Caching, prefetching, and inter- and intra-query parallelism to boost backend utilization and cut latency. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h2a4ec947a422bc6c
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2015
Pagerank: 8.1166572e-05
Overall Rank: 2,697 | 81.88%
DOI: 10.1145/2723372.2742799

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Authors

1. Pawel Terlecki (Tableau Research)
2. Fei Xu (Tableau Research)
3. Marianne Shaw (Tableau Research)
4. Valeri Kim (Tableau Research)
5. Richard Wesley (Tableau Research)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{terlecki_sigmod15,
        title = {{On Improving User Response Times in Tableau}},
        author = {Terlecki, Pawel and Xu, Fei and Shaw, Marianne and Kim, Valeri and Wesley, Richard},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '15},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2723372.2742799},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2723372.2742799},
        year = {2015}
}

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924	Effortless Data Exploration with zenvisage: An Expressive and Interactive Visual Analytics System	2017	VLDB	0.0001305096
1,713	SMOKE: Fine-grained Lineage at Interactive Speed	2018	VLDB	9.8129981e-05
1,879	Making the Case for Query-by-Voice with EchoQuery	2016	SIGMOD	9.4489661e-05
2,777	DBPal: A Learned NL-Interface for Databases	2018	SIGMOD	8.0271197e-05
5,864	SpeakQL: Towards Speech-driven Multimodal Querying of Structured Data	2020	SIGMOD	5.9647326e-05
9,787	Optimizing Dataflow Systems for Scalable Interactive Visualization	2024	SIGMOD	5.1276108e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 18 of 18 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1	Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System	1979	SIGMOD	0.0023943337
14	MonetDB/X100: Hyper-Pipelining Query Execution	2005	CIDR	0.00064013679
102	Efficient Optimization of a Class of Relational Expressions	1978	SIGMOD	0.00033899077
129	Efficient and Extensible Algorithms for Multi Query Optimization	2000	SIGMOD	0.00030395767
310	Optimization of Real Conjunctive Queries	1993	PODS	0.00021364898
331	Column-Stores vs. Row-Stores: How Different Are They Really?	2008	SIGMOD	0.0002076806
410	Semantic Data Caching and Replacement	1996	VLDB	0.00018796567
553	Optimizing Queries Using Materialized Views: A Practical, Scalable Solution	2001	SIGMOD	0.00016518678
577	The GMAP: A Versatile Tool for Physical Data Independence	1994	VLDB	0.00016111779
831	Pipelining in Multi-Query Optimization	2001	PODS	0.00013583882
2,086	An Architecture for Recycling Intermediates in a Column-store	2009	SIGMOD	9.0677901e-05
2,180	Combining User Interaction, Speculative Query Execution and Sampling in the DICE System	2014	VLDB	8.9111325e-05
3,283	An Analytic Data Engine for Visualization in Tableau	2011	SIGMOD	7.4529021e-05
3,314	Scheduling Shared Scans of Large Data Files	2008	VLDB	7.4349711e-05
3,316	On the Complexity of Equivalence between Recursive and Nonrecursive Datalog Programs	1994	PODS	7.4342107e-05
3,871	On the Complexity of the Containment Problem for Conjunctive Queries with Built-in Predicates	1998	PODS	6.9520505e-05
5,345	Dynamic Workload Driven Data Integration in Tableau	2012	SIGMOD	6.1716217e-05
6,987	Leveraging Compression in the Tableau Data Engine	2014	SIGMOD	5.6258961e-05

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