Sigma Workbook: A Spreadsheet for Cloud Data Warehouses
Summary: Sigma Workbook couples a spreadsheet-like, direct-manipulation interface with dynamic SQL synthesis over cloud data warehouses. It uniquely brings scalable, expressive ad-hoc analytics—including cohorting, sessionization, and augmentation—to business users without sacrificing CDW execution. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. James Gale (Sigma Computing)
- 2. Max Seiden (Sigma Computing)
- 3. Deepanshu Utkarsh (Sigma Computing)
- 4. Jason Frantz (Sigma Computing)
- 5. Rob Woollen (Sigma Computing)
- 6. Çağatay Demiralp (Sigma Computing)
BibTeX Citation
@article{gale_vldb22,
title = {{Sigma Workbook: A Spreadsheet for Cloud Data Warehouses}},
author = {Gale, James and Seiden, Max and Utkarsh, Deepanshu and Frantz, Jason and Woollen, Rob and Demiralp, Çağatay},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '22},
volume = {15},
number = {12},
pages = {3670--3673},
doi = {10.14778/3554821.3554871},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3554821.3554871},
year = {2022}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,925 | DataChat: An Intuitive and Collaborative Data Analytics Platform | 2023 | SIGMOD | 6.9034102e-05 |
| 7,107 | WarpGate: A Semantic Join Discovery System for Cloud Data Warehouses | 2023 | CIDR | 5.5818446e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 9 of 9 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 49 | Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets | 2010 | VLDB | 0.00043085722 |
| 52 | The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse | 2016 | SIGMOD | 0.00041439488 |
| 226 | Amazon Redshift and the Case for Simpler Data Warehouses | 2015 | SIGMOD | 0.0002389883 |
| 1,488 | Photon: A Fast Query Engine for Lakehouse Systems | 2022 | SIGMOD | 0.00010487094 |
| 1,725 | Spreadsheets in RDBMS for OLAP | 2003 | SIGMOD | 9.7733128e-05 |
| 3,317 | Spreadsheet As a Relational Database Engine | 2010 | SIGMOD | 7.4148507e-05 |
| 6,270 | DataSpread: Unifying Databases and Spreadsheets | 2015 | VLDB | 5.8115184e-05 |
| 7,540 | Benchmarking Spreadsheet Systems | 2020 | SIGMOD | 5.4838462e-05 |
| 8,345 | Cohort Query Processing | 2017 | VLDB | 5.3339863e-05 |
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