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Hadoop++: Making a Yellow Elephant Run Like a Cheetah (Without It Even Noticing)

Summary: Hadoop++ transparently accelerates Hadoop by injecting indexing and join optimizations through UDFs, without modifying its framework or interface. It substantially outperforms Hadoop and HadoopDB while remaining compatible with future Hadoop changes. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
h36bb8849cf7e7883
Venue
VLDB
Year
2010
Pagerank
0.00014835154
Overall Rank
677 | 95.47%
DOI
10.14778/1920841.1920908

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BibTeX Citation

@article{dittrich_vldb10,
        title = {{Hadoop++: Making a Yellow Elephant Run Like a Cheetah (Without It Even Noticing)}},
        author = {Dittrich, Jens and Kargin, Yagiz and Quiané-Ruiz, Jorge-Arnulfo and Setty, Vinay and Jindal, Alekh and Schad, Jörg},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '10},
        volume = {3},
        number = {1},
        pages = {518--529},
        doi = {10.14778/1920841.1920908},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1920841.1920908},
        year = {2010}
}

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759 Profiling, What-if Analysis, and Cost-based Optimization of MapReduce Programs 2011 VLDB 0.00014194746
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1,286 Automatic Optimization for MapReduce Programs 2011 VLDB 0.00011187304
1,360 SkewTune: Mitigating Skew in MapReduce Applications 2012 SIGMOD 0.00010893993
1,706 PerfXplain: Debugging MapReduce Job Performance 2012 VLDB 9.804657e-05
2,187 Efficient Processing of Data Warehousing Queries in a Split Execution Environment 2011 SIGMOD 8.8889656e-05
2,353 TriAD: A Distributed Shared-Nothing RDF Engine based on Asynchronous Message Passing 2014 SIGMOD 8.5756201e-05
2,561 Minimal MapReduce Algorithms 2013 SIGMOD 8.2743492e-05
2,699 CoHadoop: Flexible Data Placement and Its Exploitation in Hadoop 2011 VLDB 8.100024e-05
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2,944 Efficient Multi-way Theta-Join Processing Using MapReduce 2012 VLDB 7.8126906e-05
3,017 Llama: Leveraging Columnar Storage for Scalable Join Processing in the MapReduce Framework 2011 SIGMOD 7.7319353e-05
3,071 Scalable Big Graph Processing in MapReduce 2014 SIGMOD 7.6670408e-05
3,307 Lightning Fast and Space Efficient Inequality Joins 2015 VLDB 7.4203464e-05
3,347 Optimizing Analytic Data Flows for Multiple Execution Engines 2012 SIGMOD 7.3802385e-05
3,907 Hyper Dimension Shuffle: Efficient Data Repartition at Petabyte Scale in SCOPE 2019 VLDB 6.9139522e-05
4,266 The Unified Logging Infrastructure for Data Analytics at Twitter 2012 VLDB 6.6787601e-05
4,550 AdaptDB: Adaptive Partitioning for Distributed Joins 2017 VLDB 6.5327021e-05
5,149 Holistic Indexing in Main-memory Column-stores 2015 SIGMOD 6.2382463e-05
5,297 Only Aggressive Elephants are Fast Elephants 2012 VLDB 6.1773472e-05
5,664 Building Wavelet Histograms on Large Data in MapReduce 2012 VLDB 6.0293278e-05
6,092 Exploiting Soft and Hard Correlations in Big Data Query Optimization 2016 VLDB 5.8723624e-05
6,337 Clydesdale: Structured Data Processing on Hadoop 2012 SIGMOD 5.7928915e-05
6,435 A Hadoop Based Distributed Loading Approach to Parallel Data Warehouses 2011 SIGMOD 5.7683188e-05
6,942 Petabyte-Scale Row-Level Operations in Data Lakehouses 2024 VLDB 5.622856e-05
7,405 Lachesis: Automatic Partitioning for UDF-Centric Analytics 2021 VLDB 5.5172664e-05
8,181 ScalaGiST: Scalable Generalized Search Trees for MapReduce Systems [Innovative Systems Paper] 2014 VLDB 5.3672299e-05
8,191 Pangea: Monolithic Distributed Storage for Data Analytics 2019 VLDB 5.3648409e-05
8,194 Indexing HDFS Data in PDW: Splitting the data from the index 2014 VLDB 5.3640595e-05
8,466 CARTILAGE: Adding Flexibility to the Hadoop Skeleton 2013 SIGMOD 5.3148581e-05
8,650 Piranha: Optimizing Short Jobs in Hadoop 2013 VLDB 5.2809021e-05
9,717 Rank Join Queries in NoSQL Databases 2014 VLDB 5.1233669e-05
9,728 Efficient Big Data Processing in Hadoop MapReduce 2012 VLDB 5.1205326e-05
12,525 DGFIndex for Smart Grid: Enhancing Hive with a Cost-Effective Multidimensional Range Index 2014 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
12,565 D-Hive: Data Bees Pollinating RDF, Text, and Time 2013 CIDR 4.9605343e-05
12,567 How Achaeans Would Construct Columns in Troy 2013 CIDR 4.9605343e-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
6 Pig Latin: A Not-So-Foreign Language for Data Processing 2008 SIGMOD 0.0010494385
30 SCOPE: Easy and Efficient Parallel Processing of Massive Data Sets 2008 VLDB 0.00050364918
31 Hive - A Warehousing Solution Over a Map-Reduce Framework 2009 VLDB 0.00049707539
43 A Comparison of Approaches to Large-Scale Data Analysis 2009 SIGMOD 0.00045453255
76 Map-Reduce-Merge: Simplified Relational Data Processing on Large Clusters 2007 SIGMOD 0.00036932687
120 HadoopDB: An Architectural Hybrid of MapReduce and DBMS Technologies for Analytical Workloads 2009 VLDB 0.00031017868
154 MAD Skills: New Analysis Practices for Big Data 2009 VLDB 0.00028524078
209 Cache Conscious Indexing for Decision-Support in Main Memory 1999 VLDB 0.00024915373
655 Building a High-Level Dataflow System on top of Map-Reduce: The Pig Experience 2009 VLDB 0.00015076669
893 Runtime Measurements in the Cloud: Observing, Analyzing, and Reducing Variance 2010 VLDB 0.00013199466
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