HAWQ: A Massively Parallel Processing SQL Engine in Hadoop
Summary: MPP SQL on HDFS combining DBMS-style parallelism with Hadoop; standard SQL with full ACID transactions. UDP interconnect, fault tolerance, read-optimized storage, and extensible data-store support for Hadoop formats; ~40x Stinger, ~35–45x Hive. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Lei Chang (Pivotal)
- 2. Zhanwei Wang (Pivotal)
- 3. Tao Ma (Pivotal)
- 4. Lirong Jian (Pivotal)
- 5. Lili Ma (Pivotal)
- 6. Alon Goldshuv (Pivotal)
- 7. Luke Lonergan (Pivotal)
- 8. Jeffrey Cohen (Pivotal)
- 9. Caleb Welton (Pivotal)
- 10. Gavin Sherry (Pivotal)
- 11. Milind Bhandarkar (Pivotal)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{chang_sigmod14,
title = {{HAWQ: A Massively Parallel Processing SQL Engine in Hadoop}},
author = {Chang, Lei and Wang, Zhanwei and Ma, Tao and Jian, Lirong and Ma, Lili and Goldshuv, Alon and Lonergan, Luke and Cohen, Jeffrey and Welton, Caleb and Sherry, Gavin and Bhandarkar, Milind},
series = {{SIGMOD} '14},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/2588555.2595636},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2588555.2595636},
year = {2014}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,884 | SQL-on-Hadoop: Full Circle Back to Shared-Nothing Database Architectures | 2014 | VLDB | 9.4388097e-05 |
| 3,804 | Evolving Databases for New-Gen Big Data Applications | 2017 | CIDR | 7.0124332e-05 |
| 5,005 | Using Cloud Functions as Accelerator for Elastic Data Analytics | 2023 | SIGMOD | 6.3177105e-05 |
| 5,044 | Lightweight Cardinality Estimation in LSM-based Systems | 2018 | SIGMOD | 6.30014e-05 |
| 5,817 | VectorH: Taking SQL-on-Hadoop to the Next Level | 2016 | SIGMOD | 5.9840356e-05 |
| 6,278 | Just-In-Time Data Virtualization: Lightweight Data Management with ViDa | 2015 | CIDR | 5.8263939e-05 |
| 8,652 | Optimization of Common Table Expressions in MPP Database Systems | 2015 | VLDB | 5.2944739e-05 |
| 12,185 | Integration of Large-Scale Data Processing Systems and Traditional Parallel Database Technology | 2019 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-05 |
| 12,341 | Datometry Hyper-Q: Bridging the Gap Between Real-Time and Historical Analytics | 2016 | SIGMOD | 4.9793485e-05 |
| 12,438 | Tutorial: SQL-on-Hadoop Systems | 2015 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-05 |
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