G-OLA: Generalized On-Line Aggregation for Interactive Analysis on Big Data

Summary: G-OLA generalizes online aggregation to support OLAP queries with arbitrarily nested aggregates via delta-maintenance in a mini-batch model. Implemented in FluoDB atop Spark; scales to 100 nodes processing ~10 TB of logs with real-time dashboards. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h3eb3c63af1bfefb4
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2015
Pagerank: 9.4470874e-05
Overall Rank: 1,874 | 87.44%
DOI: 10.1145/2723372.2735381

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Kai Zeng (University of California Berkeley)
2. Sameer Agarwal (Databricks)
3. Ankur Dave (University of California Berkeley)
4. Michael Armbrust (Databricks)
5. Ion Stoica (University of California Berkeley)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{zeng_sigmod15,
        title = {{G-OLA: Generalized On-Line Aggregation for Interactive Analysis on Big Data}},
        author = {Zeng, Kai and Agarwal, Sameer and Dave, Ankur and Armbrust, Michael and Stoica, Ion},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '15},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2723372.2735381},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2723372.2735381},
        year = {2015}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 25 of 25 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
23	Spark SQL: Relational Data Processing in Spark	2015	SIGMOD	0.00055523999
594	Wander Join: Online Aggregation via Random Walks	2016	SIGMOD	0.00015814493
770	VerdictDB: Universalizing Approximate Query Processing	2018	SIGMOD	0.00014086699
793	Random Sampling over Joins Revisited	2018	SIGMOD	0.00013903938
841	Quickr: Lazily Approximating Complex AdHoc Queries in BigData Clusters	2016	SIGMOD	0.00013503124
1,065	Approximate Query Processing: No Silver Bullet	2017	SIGMOD	0.00012181098
1,416	Northstar: An Interactive Data Science System	2018	VLDB	0.00010707248
2,040	Database Learning: Toward a Database that Becomes Smarter Every Time	2017	SIGMOD	9.1319608e-05
2,871	SnappyData: A Unified Cluster for Streaming, Transactions, and Interactive Analytics	2017	CIDR	7.9024682e-05
3,428	Revisiting Reuse for Approximate Query Processing	2017	VLDB	7.2957009e-05
3,466	Scaling Spark in the Real World: Performance and Usability	2015	VLDB	7.2609893e-05
3,658	Davos: A System for Interactive Data-Driven Decision Making	2021	VLDB	7.1100991e-05
4,229	Efficient Selection of Geospatial Data on Maps for Interactive and Visualized Exploration	2018	SIGMOD	6.7068084e-05
5,049	Adaptive Sampling for Rapidly Matching Histograms	2018	VLDB	6.287033e-05
5,399	At-the-time and Back-in-time Persistent Sketches	2021	SIGMOD	6.1336701e-05
5,944	Hillview: A trillion-cell spreadsheet for big data	2019	VLDB	5.9213827e-05
6,014	Approximate Query Engines: Commercial Challenges and Research Opportunities	2017	SIGMOD	5.8956963e-05
6,232	iOLAP: Managing Uncertainty for Efficient Incremental OLAP	2016	SIGMOD	5.8255726e-05
7,232	Marviq: Quality-Aware Geospatial Visualization of Range-Selection Queries Using Materialization	2020	SIGMOD	5.563377e-05
7,745	PilotDB: Database-Agnostic Online Approximate Query Processing with A Priori Error Guarantees	2025	SIGMOD	5.4457135e-05
7,950	Biathlon: Harnessing Model Resilience for Accelerating ML Inference Pipelines	2024	VLDB	5.402957e-05
9,074	TabEE: Tabular Embeddings Explanations	2024	SIGMOD	5.2114119e-05
9,608	A Step Toward Deep Online Aggregation	2023	SIGMOD	5.1376962e-05
10,344	DeepOLA: Online Aggregation for Deeply Nested Queries	2022	SIGMOD	5.0197268e-05
12,194	Query-Driven Learning for Next Generation Predictive Modeling & Analytics	2019	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 14 of 14 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
9	Online Aggregation	1997	SIGMOD	0.00076079812
26	Models and Issues in Data Stream Systems	2002	PODS	0.00051942573
39	Efficiently Updating Materialized Views	1986	SIGMOD	0.00046445099
128	The Design of the Borealis Stream Processing Engine	2005	CIDR	0.00030317705
152	Query Processing, Resource Management, and Approximation in a Data Stream Management System	2003	CIDR	0.00028566618
337	The Aqua Approximate Query Answering System	1999	SIGMOD	0.00020593498
388	Incremental Maintenance of Views with Duplicates	1995	SIGMOD	0.0001928135
408	DBToaster: Higher-order Delta Processing for Dynamic, Frequently Fresh Views	2012	VLDB	0.00018836656
935	Dynamic Sample Selection for Approximate Query Processing	2003	SIGMOD	0.00012968914
1,022	Online Aggregation for Large MapReduce Jobs	2011	VLDB	0.00012400958
1,435	Knowing When You’re Wrong: Building Fast and Reliable Approximate Query Processing Systems	2014	SIGMOD	0.00010659454
1,614	SciBORQ: Scientific data management with Bounds On Runtime and Quality	2011	CIDR	0.00010054823
2,095	Incremental Maintenance for Non-Distributive Aggregate Functions	2002	VLDB	9.0408055e-05
2,372	Online Aggregation and Continuous Query support in MapReduce	2010	SIGMOD	8.5454388e-05

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