An Analytic Data Engine for Visualization in Tableau
Summary: Specialized analytic data engine tightly coupled with Tableau 6.0 for interactive visualization, inspired by column-oriented stores. Describes architecture, query pipeline, and evaluation on real-world visualization scenarios to show performance gains. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Richard Wesley (Tableau Research)
- 2. Matthew Eldridge (Tableau Research)
- 3. Pawel Terlecki (Tableau Research)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{wesley_sigmod11,
title = {{An Analytic Data Engine for Visualization in Tableau}},
author = {Wesley, Richard and Eldridge, Matthew and Terlecki, Pawel},
series = {{SIGMOD} '11},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/1989323.1989449},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1989323.1989449},
year = {2011}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 8 of 8 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,500 | M4: A Visualization-Oriented Time Series Data Aggregation | 2014 | VLDB | 0.0001046347 |
| 2,700 | On Improving User Response Times in Tableau | 2015 | SIGMOD | 8.1188166e-05 |
| 3,341 | I've Seen "Enough": Incrementally Improving Visualizations to Support Rapid Decision Making | 2017 | VLDB | 7.4063139e-05 |
| 5,180 | The Case for Data Visualization Management Systems | 2014 | VLDB | 6.240722e-05 |
| 5,930 | Hillview: A trillion-cell spreadsheet for big data | 2019 | VLDB | 5.9438354e-05 |
| 6,036 | Incremental Computation of Common Windowed Holistic Aggregates | 2016 | VLDB | 5.9087766e-05 |
| 6,984 | Leveraging Compression in the Tableau Data Engine | 2014 | SIGMOD | 5.6285605e-05 |
| 12,144 | Interactive Visualization for Big Spatial Data | 2019 | SIGMOD | 4.9793485e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS | 2005 | VLDB | 0.00068998927 |
| 14 | MonetDB/X100: Hyper-Pipelining Query Execution | 2005 | CIDR | 0.00064031282 |
| 70 | The End of an Architectural Era (It’s Time for a Complete Rewrite) | 2007 | VLDB | 0.00037859131 |
| 331 | Column-Stores vs. Row-Stores: How Different Are They Really? | 2008 | SIGMOD | 0.0002077683 |
| 1,587 | Estimating Progress of Execution for SQL Queries | 2004 | SIGMOD | 0.0001014156 |
| 2,032 | Practical Predicate Placement | 1994 | SIGMOD | 9.1561026e-05 |
| 6,546 | Data Warehouse Technology by Infobright | 2009 | SIGMOD | 5.751485e-05 |
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