Optimizing Dataflow Systems for Scalable Interactive Visualization

Summary: VegaPlus fuses visualization with back-end optimization for dashboards. An optimizer reasons about plans on Vega and the DBMS, accounts for UI-driven changes, and can rewrite plans; benchmarks on seven dashboards show gains vs standard optimizers. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h370ed448e2ae80b2
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2024
Pagerank: 5.1300393e-05
Overall Rank: 9,781 | 34.24%
DOI: 10.1145/3639276

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Junran Yang (University of Washington)
2. Hyekang Kevin Joo (Carnegie Mellon University)
3. Sai Yerramreddy (University of Maryland)
4. Dominik Moritz (Carnegie Mellon University)
5. Leilani Battle (University of Washington)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{yang_sigmod24,
        title = {{Optimizing Dataflow Systems for Scalable Interactive Visualization}},
        author = {Yang, Junran and Joo, Hyekang Kevin and Yerramreddy, Sai and Moritz, Dominik and Battle, Leilani},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '24},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3639276},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3639276},
        year = {2024}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
6,636	Physical Visualization Design: Decoupling Interface and System Design	2025	SIGMOD	5.7262507e-05
11,157	Mosaic: An Architecture for Linking Databases and Scalable Interactive Visualizations	2025	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
71	DuckDB: an Embeddable Analytical Database	2019	SIGMOD	0.00037720227
253	Database Cracking	2007	CIDR	0.00023042111
510	TelegraphCQ: Continuous Dataflow Processing	2003	SIGMOD	0.00017065714
560	Plan-Structured Deep Neural Network Models for Query Performance Prediction	2019	VLDB	0.00016403151
924	Effortless Data Exploration with zenvisage: An Expressive and Interactive Visual Analytics System	2017	VLDB	0.00013057136
1,279	AI Meets AI: Leveraging Query Executions to Improve Index Recommendations	2019	SIGMOD	0.00011226878
1,502	VisTrails: Visualization meets Data Management	2006	SIGMOD	0.00010456416
1,608	Dynamic Prefetching of Data Tiles for Interactive Visualization	2016	SIGMOD	0.00010084292
1,746	SMOKE: Fine-grained Lineage at Interactive Speed	2018	VLDB	9.7341914e-05
1,797	IDEBench: A Benchmark for Interactive Data Exploration	2020	SIGMOD	9.6187325e-05
2,210	Lero: A Learning-to-Rank Query Optimizer	2023	VLDB	8.8257742e-05
2,648	Explore-by-Example: An Automatic Query Steering Framework for Interactive Data Exploration	2014	SIGMOD	8.1761271e-05
2,700	On Improving User Response Times in Tableau	2015	SIGMOD	8.1188166e-05
2,834	Cost Models for Big Data Query Processing: Learning, Retrofitting, and Our Findings	2020	SIGMOD	7.9560627e-05
3,419	Revisiting Reuse for Approximate Query Processing	2017	VLDB	7.3190065e-05
4,986	Indexing for Interactive Exploration of Big Data Series	2014	SIGMOD	6.3264608e-05
5,573	Database Benchmarking for Supporting Real-Time Interactive Querying of Large Data	2020	SIGMOD	6.0794156e-05
5,842	Kyrix: Interactive Visual Data Exploration at Scale	2019	CIDR	5.9731671e-05
6,141	Expand your Training Limits! Generating Training Data for ML-based Data Management	2021	SIGMOD	5.8733296e-05
6,992	Skimmer: Rapid Scrolling of Relational Query Results	2012	SIGMOD	5.6267971e-05
7,253	Continuous Prefetch for Interactive Data Applications	2020	SIGMOD	5.5731095e-05
10,016	The Data Interaction Game	2018	SIGMOD	5.0959403e-05

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