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POLARIS: The Distributed SQL Engine in Azure Synapse

Summary: Polaris re-architects Azure Synapse’s SQL DW engine for cloud-native separation of compute and state, unifying relational and big-data workloads. Its cell abstraction, fine-grained scheduling, partial restarts, and retained T-SQL/SQL Server compatibility enable elastic PB-scale execution. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
h4a8f5cd8e2f52928
Venue
VLDB
Year
2020
Pagerank
9.6227952e-05
Overall Rank
1,790 | 87.98%
DOI
10.14778/3415478.3415545
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BibTeX Citation

@article{aguilarsaborit_vldb20,
        title = {{POLARIS: The Distributed SQL Engine in Azure Synapse}},
        author = {Aguilar-Saborit, Josep and Ramakrishnan, Raghu and Srinivasan, Krish and Bocksrocker, Kevin and Alagiannis, Ioannis and Sankara, Mahadevan and Shafiei, Moe and Blakeley, Jose and Dasarathy, Girish and Dash, Sumeet and Davidovic, Lazar and Damjanic, Maja and Djunic, Slobodan and Djurkic, Nemanja and Feddersen, Charles and Galindo-Legaria, Cesar and Halverson, Alan and Kovacevic, Milana and Kicovic, Nikola and Lukic, Goran and Maksimovic, Djordje and Manic, Ana and Markovic, Nikola and Mihic, Bosko and Milic, Ugljesa and Milojevic, Marko and Nayak, Tapas and Potocnik, Milan and Radic, Milos and Radivojevic, Bozidar and Rangarajan, Srikumar and Ruzic, Milan and Simic, Milan and Sosic, Marko and Stanko, Igor and Stikic, Maja and Stanojkov, Sasa and Stefanovic, Vukasin and Sukovic, Milos and Tomic, Aleksandar and Tomic, Dragan and Toscano, Steve and Trifunovic, Djordje and Vasic, Veljko and Verona, Tomer and Vujic, Aleksandar and Vujic, Nikola and Vukovic, Marko and Zivanovic, Marko},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '20},
        volume = {13},
        number = {12},
        pages = {3204--3216},
        doi = {10.14778/3415478.3415545},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3415478.3415545},
        year = {2020}
}

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