ROBUS: Fair Cache Allocation for Data-parallel Workloads

Summary: ROBUS: a fair cache allocator for data-parallel, multi-tenant workloads. Defines a core-based fairness model (Pareto efficiency, envy-freeness) with randomized batching and polynomial-time approximations to achieve core-in-expectation fairness; prototype on Spark's RDD store demonstrates performance and fairness gains. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h505fb41ffca7a8f3
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 6.2805079e-05
Overall Rank: 5,088 | 65.80%
DOI: 10.1145/3035918.3064018

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Mayuresh Kunjir (Duke University)
2. Brandon Fain (Duke University)
3. Kamesh Munagala (Duke University)
4. Shivnath Babu (Duke University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{kunjir_sigmod17,
        title = {{ROBUS: Fair Cache Allocation for Data-parallel Workloads}},
        author = {Kunjir, Mayuresh and Fain, Brandon and Munagala, Kamesh and Babu, Shivnath},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '17},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3035918.3064018},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3035918.3064018},
        year = {2017}
}

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10,160	Thoth in Action: Memory Management in Modern Data Analytics	2017	VLDB	5.0688288e-05
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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
88	Automated Selection of Materialized Views and Indexes for SQL Databases	2000	VLDB	0.00035351639
106	Quickly Generating Billion-Record Synthetic Databases	1994	SIGMOD	0.00033526937
212	The LRU-K Page Replacement Algorithm For Database Disk Buffering	1993	SIGMOD	0.00024767296
508	Adaptive Self-Tuning Memory in DB2	2006	VLDB	0.00017089907
553	Optimizing Queries Using Materialized Views: A Practical, Scalable Solution	2001	SIGMOD	0.0001652591
585	Workload-Aware Database Monitoring and Consolidation	2011	SIGMOD	0.00015949541
762	Cooperative Scans: Dynamic Bandwidth Sharing in a DBMS	2007	VLDB	0.00014140446
823	MRShare: Sharing Across Multiple Queries in MapReduce	2010	VLDB	0.00013648332
923	Materialized View Selection and Maintenance Using Multi-Query Optimization	2001	SIGMOD	0.00013064753
949	DynaMat: A Dynamic View Management System for Data Warehouses	1999	SIGMOD	0.00012902181
1,338	SQLVM: Performance Isolation in Multi-Tenant Relational Database-as-a-Service	2013	CIDR	0.00010979494
1,499	Multi-Tenant Databases for Software as a Service: Schema-Mapping Techniques	2008	SIGMOD	0.00010471977
1,706	Algorithms for Materialized View Design in Data Warehousing Environment	1997	VLDB	9.8299851e-05
1,924	ReStore: Reusing Results of MapReduce Jobs	2012	VLDB	9.3687009e-05
2,999	Sharing Buffer Pool Memory in Multi-Tenant Relational Database-as-a-Service	2015	VLDB	7.7676694e-05
3,313	Scheduling Shared Scans of Large Data Files	2008	VLDB	7.4383267e-05
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6,786	Hadoop's Adolescence: An analysis of Hadoop usage in scientific workloads	2013	VLDB	5.6820666e-05

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